the waiting country

(The most helpful books - no.4) You won't sit down and read this one cover-to-cover (well, I doubt it) but James L Mays ' commentary...

(The most helpful books - no.3) A good friend bought me this for being best man at his wedding, back in 1986. What a gift! Murray forces you...

Over many years now, scores of people have found Operation World a terrific resource for informing their prayers for the nations. There'...

A great deal of scholarly attention has been given to the power of liturgy in forming identity and the shaping effect of narrative in our un...

In an earlier post, I mentioned a recent gathering to pray for revival. As always, such events leave me with questions in my mind about the ...

Jerry Sittser, writing out of his own experience of profound loss, comments on Job: Job stopped asking questions not because God was a bully...

Matt Chandler was recently asked, How has fighting cancer changed your perspective as a leader? This was his reply: It’s made me think a l...

I was at a 'concert of prayer for revival' on Saturday. Many thoughts went through my mind in relation to it but one that has stuck ...

(The most helpful books - no.2) I guess I must have read this book in about 1987/88, as a fairly young Christian. It's a collection of e...

Sentimentalists cannot distinguish their anxiety from their empathy. They confuse their own need to be less anxious in the face of pain with...

When anxiety is high, resilience is low. Behaviors are extreme and rigid; thoughts are unclear and disjointed. Anxious people speak harsh wo...

This implies ages of this world's history that were not the last days; they were prior, preparatory, anticipatory. The last days are cha...

Apart from the Scriptures and the knowledge derived from them, we today would be in complete darkness respecting the content of our Christia...

(The most helpful books - no.1) I first came across Mark McMinn when I got hold of what is itself a really helpful book, Integrative Psycho...

What Peter announces...is a conversion of the imagination: personal reconstruction within a new web of relationships, resocialisation within...

When strong is wrong: why men need men We can have an idea that, for a man, being strong means being able to cope – on our own . To be able ...

Living the Gospel: The Letter to the Philippians Study 5 – Philippians 1:27-30 Verses 27,28 1. The phrase 'conduct yourselves' means...

Living the Gospel: The Letter to the Philippians Study 4 – Philippians 1:18b-26 Verses 18b-20 1. Paul has rejoiced in the gospel being procl...

Living the Gospel: The Letter to the Philippians Study 3 – Philippians 1:12-18 Verses 12-14 1. How can Paul say that what has happened to hi...

Living the Gospel: The Letter to the Philippians Study 2 – Philippians 1:7-11 Verses 7,8 Paul clearly feels a deep affection for the Philipp...