Apart from other reasons, undoubtedly one of the purposes of Jesus’ parables is to incite hunger in the hearts of genuine seekers after Jesus/the Truth. If I said to my children, “Your Christmas present this year is like…” and told them a parable type story that...
Over the weekend just gone, millions of believers all around the world have celebrated and remembered the death and resurrection of our Lord. Through his death we have atonement, redemption, justification, and in fact are given everything we need for life in Christ. But a...
This article is a continuation of part 4, This is the last page of this series and completes the article. As an aside, I need to explain at this point that when I speak about pledges, I am not talking about the use of ‘pledges’ in the...
This is continued from part three. The NIV translation uses the English word pledge in the apostle Peter’s teaching about the meaning of baptism (1 Peter 3: 21), but this is not a pledge in the sense of making a vow, and other translations do not use...
This is continued from part two. He believed that to keep the revival, and to consolidate the work God had done, the people needed to enter into a solemn oath and covenant before God. In March, 1742, he drew up such a document, which is recorded in...
This article is continued from Part 1 The man’s ‘delusion’ was, having read that in the last times the Holy Spirit would give gifts to all believers and not just to ministers, he thought, because of the revival, the time must have come, and so he...
How do you maintain a revival once you have one? The question is relevant, because most of the revivals in history have been very short-lived. Not many revivals last more than a year or two; some last only a day or two. Who wants to...
Over the last few decades as apostolic concepts have been explored around the world, there has frequently been a tendency towards external things. It’s easy to observe what can be seen and praise the latest, greatest things happening. Big ministries who plant many churches can...
Over the last 20 years, John Alley, and Peace Apostolic Ministries has travelled and ministered in about 40 nations, and on every continent. (excluding Antarctica) This has been a journey of love, and the Lord strongly impressed that we were to “take an apostolic message to...
During our New Years Even prayer meeting in 2017 we had discussed between us some of the difficulties and hardships of 2017. The Lord was with us, but it had been hard work. Many of us felt that the year behind contained many lessons and...
