In Christian circles these days, a lot can be and has been said about the heart, and how God views its condition. Much of what is said is good; other times it can be a little vacuous, if statements like “well, God knows our hearts” go without much explanation, and seem to contravene the facts … More Do not let your WHAT be troubled?
I’m reading a great book at the moment, “America, Empire of Liberty”, which is basically a recent, re-thought history of America written by Cambridge professor David Reynolds. Helpfully for European readers like myself it obviously lacks the shallow patriotism and misrepresentation of facts which often comes with what is associated with American history as it … More The Paradoxes of American History
I found this again this morning. Well, I say I found it, it has been stuck in the front of my Bible for years now, but has been obscured by various other bits of paper floating around there. Anyway I took a proper look at it again this morning, and man it was exciting! Basically … More In Christ
I blogged before about extravagant worship, concerning which I believe the Scripture has some important things to say. The Lord has been opening up a little bit more to me about this subject, of late. I have observed what else is involved in situations where worship is radically expressed in an abandoned way. It came … More Worship 7: The results of extravagant worship
There’s not much to this post. Just that the other day, in the context of a mission that we have going on at the moment, when I thought about Jesus in the Gospels, two things struck me without me even really thinking about it (in other words, the Lord spoke to me): purity, and power. … More Purity and Power
I first wrote about something like this in one of my early blogs, “Overwhelmed by need, focussed by hope” which was more specifically about my trip to Thailand two years ago. There I witnessed so many disabled and needy children cramped into government homes with such sparse care available to them, and was needless to … More Why your calling matters
Recently a group of folk from our church went and joined several other folk from other churches to be part of an audience for this live TV debate which I found rather late last night on youtube. The question was, Is Calvinism Biblical? Jacques More, author of the anti-calvinistic book So You Think You’re Chosen? … More Calvinism Debate
At our church recently we have been looking at the life of Abraham in some depth, and it is turning up a lot of discoveries, many of them fresh for a lot of people. It’s often all too easy to summarise the life of Abraham into one short sentence or phrase, and forget all of … More Please don’t pass me by…
One of my favourite verses in the Bible is found in Luke 24 when a couple of disciples have just realised that they were talking with the risen Jesus and they say to one another, “Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke the word to us?” It’s how they recognised that it … More My heart is the tinder and His words are the match
I don’t know about you, but at primary school one of the tunes we really dug in assembly went “This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made…” That was always a rocking number. If you know it feel free to momentarily pause and sing it … More Worship 6: This is the day…
Ben David Trigg 