Dreams

“In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed.  He wrote down the substance of his dream.”  Daniel 7:1 I’ve been reading Pete Greig’s book, *How to Hear God*. His chapter...

Even If…

Have you heard the one about this guy named Dan? He was a mighty, holy, praying man. They said, ‘Throw him to the den of the scary beasts.’ But God saved our hero from the lion’s teeth. This is more than history. He will do the same for me! You’re with me! My God’s...

The Freedom of self-forgetfulness

It wasn’t that long ago that I had someone tell me I’m authoritarian in my leadership. I was gutted and gobsmaked. In all the decades I’ve been in leadership, there has only been one other occasion someone said this about me. Regardless, I had to ‘check-in’ with the...

The Potent Poison of Pride

I recently read about a guy who was gifted a pufferfish. After preparing it, he boiled it before he and his friend ate it with lime juice. Within less than an hour, he started to feel numb in his mouth. He drove himself to the hospital. Before long, he went into...

Hold On To God’s Word – Part 2

I don’t know about you but last week’s article by Tania spoke to me. The words from Luke 1:37 that she has read hundreds of times before ‘jumped out and hit me in the face’: ‘FOR NO WORD FROM GOD WILL EVER FAIL’ (emphasis hers). These were the words spoken by the...

Hold on to God’s word

Have you been in a relationship with Jesus for a long time? If you are like me and your answer is yes, do you sometimes feel like you’ve read the same Bible words over and over again? It’s like a ‘been there, heard that, read that, seen that, felt that’ kind of...