Category Archives: Missionary

The Queen in Ireland

The Queen’s visit to Ireland will be described as unprecedented, historic, groundbreaking etc. However the words that occur to me are incarnational, prophetic and godly. Arriving in what was described as an Aer Lingus green dress, attending the banquet at … Continue reading

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The Subversive Enterprise

  The Body of Christ in the world is a subversive community daring to embody a Gospel of reconciliation. We are people gathered beneath the cross but with our faces turned towards the dawn and that displaced stone, discarded shroud and … Continue reading

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“There is more faith in honest doubt…”

‘Doubting Thomas‘ is a man for all ages and one of my favourite biblical characters. I love his honest doubting, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my … Continue reading

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Beware the Ides of March!

Earlier this week I received one of those circular text messages highlighting the strange coincidence in the dates between some of the world’s great disasters. The terrorist attack on the twin towers (September 11), the earthquake in Haiti (January 11) … Continue reading

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Light is breaking…

Once as I sat by the window prayerfully venting my spleen at God‘s failure to act in a situation the sunlight illuminated a single strand of a spider’s web, which led me to a very large and exquisitely beautiful spider’s … Continue reading

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Religion sucks!

A friend of mine is the pastor of a growing church in Orlando, Florida. I’m re-posting this with his permission: Sometimes, in preparing my messages for Orlando North, I can get pretty on edge about what I’m studying and writing. … Continue reading

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Praying for South Sudan

Over 98 per cent of voters in last month’s peaceful Sudanese referendum elected to make the south the world’s newest country, and President Omar al-Bashir accepted the result. South Sudan should be independent of the Islamic north by July – … Continue reading

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Let My People Go!

Sometimes don’t you wish God were a bit more Old Testament today? At times he seems to have lost some of his Old Testament mojo and gone a bit well… 21st Century! In the Old Testament when he wanted to … Continue reading

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PEACE: the Governor? (Col 3:15)

“Let peace be your governor” Colossians 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you are called in one body; and be thankful.” Why is it up to me to let peace rule?

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“Out of the waterless pit”

“I was with God and with the Devil and I reached out to God.” That was the dramatic statement of rescued Chilean miner Mario Sepulveda after stepping out of the capsule that had taken him from his two month prison … Continue reading

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