by Richard | Dec 2, 2017 | Uncategorised
I am trying to decide whether to cut up another fresh mango. Hmm, maybe for now I will just sit on the balcony and continue being amazed at about how blessed we are: sent out by the church and being his witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of...
by Richard | Sep 7, 2017 | Uncategorised
Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them or I will terrify you before them. Jeremiah 1.17 September often feels like the beginning of a new year, with new and fresh things stretching ahead. There are indeed new...
by Richard | Aug 22, 2017 | Uncategorised
Great is the Lord! according to the Psalmist, in e.g. Psalm 48.1. These phrases can easily, and for long periods in our lives, seem mere phrases. We can read the Psalms (indeed the whole of scripture) with these expressions barely touching us, even when they do it is...
by Richard | Aug 19, 2017 | Uncategorised
My flesh always wants the comfortable easy path, wants to settle, and always somehow manages to find justification for wanting to go this way. My spirit, however – illuminated and enriched by the Holy Spirit – always wants to walk in faith and obedience. It wants to...
by Richard | Aug 1, 2017 | Uncategorised
The Lord God has given me an instructed tongue… Isaiah in chapter 50, from verse 4, looks ahead to the day a teacher will be taught to know the words which would refresh others. This teacher will walk in obedience to God’s commands, will and purpose for...
