To be a man after God's own heart. Then to lead, labour, inspire and encourage others to be the same
Since the lockdown began around year and a half ago (how time flies!), I’ve taken up an interest in coffee. Of course, I’ve enjoyed coffee for quite sometime before COVID hit, but it’s really been since being stuck at home for so long that I’ve really been paying attention to brewing it with some semblance…
The first two lessons were 1) maintaining a learning posture throughout life and 2) valuing spiritual authority as a primary power base. The next two lessons were 3) recognising the importance of leadership selection and development and 4) maintaining a dynamic ministry philosophy. This week we finish looking at Clinton’s six leadership lessons. 5) Effective…
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I am a morning person, and as such, I meet with God deliberately and patiently in the mornings. It’s part of my decision to give God the ‘best’ I have. Of course, as a Christian I have the liberty to enjoy constant communion with God throughout the day. I know that He is with me…
One of the things I have found is that God likes to disrupt areas of my life where I am not trusting Him completely. Be that in my work, relationships, hobbies or even in my spirituality and religion. It is so easy to fall into the trap of (attempting to) “put God in a box”.…
For quite some time now I have wanted to introduce a habitual time of reflection into each evening. It would be a time to look back, prayerfully and thoughtfully, on the day passed and consider: Where was God in these moments? In the big events and meetings, but also in the mundane. In the things…
I’ve not really ever been one for using a prayer list, but over the last few weeks it’s beginning to take root in my daily walks with God. I’ve been following the prayer method explained in the book ‘How to Pray’ by Pete Greig. P-Pause, R-Rejoice, A-Ask and Y-Yeild. It’s been a great read and…
I’ve been studying and praying through God’s creation of mankind recently in Genesis 1:26-28. One of the lenses I’ve looked at these verses through is in terms of all the gifts God has given humanity in Creation. The Earth as our inheritance A Numerous and lasting family to enjoy this inheritance (a result of the…
Earlier this week I was struggling to do my workout. I just did not want to do it. So instead I spent a long time thinking about writing up a new workout plan instead. Perhaps I needed to go for another P90x run through…then I thought about how I’d need a new pull up bar…so…
Numbers 25:7-15 Phinehas – passion and zeal for God’s name. Takes immediate action upon those elements he spots contrary to Gods honour! I want to be the same with elements that casually waltz into my “camp”. Notice as well that the two sinners in this passage were both leaders. Higher accountability and expectations for those…
