The Need to Restore Fatherhood The danger of the earth being struck with a curse if the hearts of the fathers and their children were not turned back to each other was prophesied in Malachi 4. In many ways, fatherlessness is the curse, and fatherhood cancels...
We all love reading the Bible, but sometimes as Christians we don’t understand it in the same way as each other. There are reasons for this of course, such as our culture, worldview, how we understand what the words we read mean, and more. One...
The Power of the ‘Fathers’ Anointing ” But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John. And he will go on before...
John 17:20-26 Unity For the past 5 weeks we have discussed the Great Commandment and Love. We are now going to consider another passage which gives us a clear insight into Christ’s desire for us. In this passage known as the High Priestly Prayer, we read the Lord...
Fathering and Sonship From the beginning God had revealed Himself to be a personal God, but more amazing is this; when Christ came in the flesh as the great revelation of God, He revealed God to be God in Father and Son. God as Father and Son, A...
Over the last fifty years things have been changing amazingly in the Islamic World. This is the result of what has been labelled by some the “greatest prayer movement in the history of the world.” Some of the information in this post comes from the...
John 13:34-35 The Great Commandment We concluded last weeks blog with Paul’s exhortation in 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10. It should be noted that he had commended them for their love, but urged them to love more. Was there an outcome from his exhortation? We find in his next...
John 13:34-35 The Great Commandment In my last blog I discussed some things that the Apostle John wrote about love in his first epistle. We will now consider some of what the Apostle Paul had to say about the topic. Love, of course, is a major theme...
The book of Genesis is sometimes despised by people because of its origin stories. It has also been picked apart with suggestions that its not internally coherent, and wasn’t written by one person but by four. However the book of Genesis is a brilliant book, internally...
John 13:34-35 The Great Commandment I concluded my last blog with a quote from John’s first Epistle (1 John 5:1-3), we will now consider some more of what John wrote in his letter, particularly with regard to our topic “The Command to Love”. There is often arguments...
