Articles

Late one April afternoon in 1945 a little girl was playing near the creek that ran down past the home where she lived with her family: her mum and dad, four sisters and two brothers; all older than herself. It was a forbidden place to play;

“The...

I know where I belong. I’m a living stone. In His house I belong.

It is an amazing and thought provoking story, the story of God’s desire for a family and His bringing it about.  It is a story of success and tragedy, failure and betrayal and...

The story of Adam and Eve is familiar to many of us.  Or is it?  There are different versions of understanding of this story.  This article asks questions and is looking at this story from our Father's point of view. 

(I am simply passing this on to challenge our perspectives - MA)

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I’m a simple little white girl from Florida who is now in Sudan taking in orphanage children to live with her.

I was really relieved when Jesus called me to move to Sudan and out of...

Introduction

There are some different types of prayer and many styles of praying.  Like many other Christians, I started Christian life knowing some things about what prayer is, but was somewhat confused about the rest because I didn't...

Christians usually agree that a successful Christian life needs to be based on something. That something is a group of beliefs and truth about who we are, who God is, and how to relate to Him. I call that group of beliefs the foundations of...

I n the Christian realm there are two kinds of knowledge which we can have.  One (which we have all been caught up with at some time or other) is the knowledge we gain from learning ~ learning about God, learning about the Bible, learning...

Introduction

Jesus' teaching is that demonic action to do with Human beings has always been:-

• to steal from us or to destroy what we are doing
• to steal some aspect of our health or personality
• to bring about death to our lives or our...

Empowerment is a hot subject with some Christians, and I have heard a few different theories about how to become empowered, and what the "secrets" to empowerment are. But as Jesus taught this, it is really quite simple and straight forward

More Aspects of Our Journey as I see it

A s I have taken time to consider prayerfully and reflect, there are a number of things about this Journey into our Father that are different from what we might have expected.  In a House Fellowship...

>A small relational bloggish.

My Father has been sharing His heart with me.  I find more and more that He wants openness and good hearted sharing, for He loves strong gentle openness in relationships (not obligations or rules).  He...

An analogy for church, and growing spiritually

Rev 3:20  Lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Gal 6:15  for in...

Baptism in Water is not an optional extra in the Bible.  It is the necessary second step after first surrendering to Jesus and asking Him to come and live in us.   Baptism is important because going under the waters is symbolic of dying...

(Understanding Repentance part 2)

Introduction

In 'Understanding repentance' we saw that repentance means turning the eye of our heart to focus on Jesus as He really is.  This makes a lot more sense when we understand the nature of the...

Belief is thought to be a kind of mind state by some, however our actual belief is more closely related to our heart state.