The Church Under Attack – A Church Equipped for The Times
What do we need to do now, this year? What/who do we need to be? How to respond to attack? The question “what’s next, Lord?” exercises my mind frequently as I guess it does yours.
A timely reassurance for 2019
Yes, I love your email address. Obviously, 247 must refer to Psalm 24:7 St George’s Edinburgh sung in the grand style.
Turning Barns into Baskets
When the disciples left their workplace in following the call of Jesus, they entered a space in life where they possessed “no visible means of support” – no status, vocation, honour in the eyes of the world. This was a space of serving the Lord through serving others that made room for baskets of divine supply.
Finishing Well
In what part of our lives are we running in vain, lacking the presence and power of the love of the Father because we are in love with the world?
Delighting in Lowliness
I have a sense that we need to respond to what the Lord is saying in two ways. Firstly, to ask his forgiveness wherever we have compared ourselves to others, in any way.
Secondly, that we confess on behalf of the Church that where she high-mindedly testifies, “I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing” in reality she is “wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked”
M7 Confessing Great Things 2018 DEC 16
In our hearts every truly “born again” believer carries the mystery of Christ and it is super-natural work of the Spirit to place the testimony of Jesus on our lips.
M6 The Glory of Angels 13 DEC 2018
ANGELS AND THE PLAN OF GOD The creation and election of the angelic host is contained in God’s eternal choice of his Son to be Saviour.
Church under water Drowning 10 DEC 2018
BACKGROUND A few weeks ago, in our early morning Perth Prayer session several of us simultaneously sensed that the Lord was calling his people to go deeper in him. Even as it’s good to see a grid of prayer is… Continue Reading
Beautified by the Word
Gen 1: 1-31 ESV | Ps 19:1-11 ESV | Heb 1:1-4 ESV | John 1:1-18 ESV INTRODUCTION Since I believe Dale’s claim in last Sunday’s message that much of the Church, including St Mark’s, is under judgement, is true, I want… Continue Reading
Authority to Disciple 06 DEC 2018
The key to the revelation of Jesus as Son of God through our lives (Acts 9:20, 25 ESV) is submission to the call of God, whatever the cost.
