As I ponder the ebb and flow of the movement of God’s Spirit in churches today, my mind is drawn to an email I received a few years ago. I had spent several days teaching a South African congregation about the presence of God, and then experiencing something of God’s glory with them. I left…
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A survivors guide to ministry and parenting! I’m not going to write to you because I’m a parent, but because I’m a son. My father has been in full time ministry over twenty years. We were missionaries for ten of those. We lived, four of us, for 7 years in a one and a half…
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Coping with the pressures of being a PK in the Pastors Home! A pastors kid huh? Well don’t expect any sympathy. You’ve got it all. Your dad’s a walking concordance, your mum can sing like a canary, no one ever argues in your home, and you; you never feel lonely, lustful, unloved; and you don’t…
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Harry Connick Jr, the modern day Sinatra-like crooner, limbers cheerfully through the “romantic” lines “if nothing lasts forever; then I’d figure I’d better take you forever, for now”, presumably unaware of the significance his wisdom carries. He describes the era in which we live. An era where we are washed daily in a new moral…
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Read the amazing story of an encounter in the African bush that changed me forever. It’s the intro to my book Glory in the Church, now available to download from Amazon for Kindle here Today was the day my worship ministry would change forever and I didn’t even know it. I woke at 6.30am to…
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Stadiums, arenas and the greatest auditoriums will be turned into church buildings. Market places filled with thousands will be overcome by the glory of God.
And yet, throughout the wondrous six weeks I began to realise I felt desperately weak
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