Picking up again on the idea of childlike curiosity I want to encourage you that growing up does not mean stopping playing. Educationalist Dr Peter Gray rightly explains: “Perhaps play would be more respected if we called it something like “self-motivated practice of life skills,” but that would remove the…

God’s invitation goes far beyond citizenship of His commonwealth. That in itself is remarkable, but Papa has gone further than that, bringing you into His very own family. Scripture says: “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;”…

I’m an Englishman. The passport I hold affords me the rights and authority of a citizen of Great Britain. It is proof of my heritage and identity. I also hold another passport and identity card, proving and ratifying my other citizenship. The Bible. This document grants me covenant rights to…

One of the strangest statements you’ll ever read is found in the book of 2 Corinthians. “We look not at the things which are seen, but at things which are not seen:” (2 Corinthians 4:18) Look at things that are not seen? Is that not a contradiction in terms? How…

Despite the devil’s best efforts to make prayer a convoluted mystery, Jesus kicks him to the curb with some wisdom we’d all be well advised to remember. “Assuredly, I am saying to you, Unless you reverse your present trend of thought and become as the little children, in no case…

God has a plan for your life. We’ve heard that statement many times, yet how many believers still stumble forward day by day wondering if they are indeed in their Father’s perfect will? Why does the way of God seem mysterious at times overwhelmed and drowned out by the clamour…

Two words that should never sit on the same page are “boring” and “prayer”. Yet for many people, prayer is a drudgery, devoid of power, a religious rigmarole. A box to tick in frustrating efforts to follow Christ stuffed alongside church attendance and Bible reading. Yet in our hearts, we…

In the course of life, we write many words but not all of them carry the same weight. The shopping list hastily scribbled on a scrap of paper doesn’t measure up to yesterday’s diary entry for example. But of all those words, what are the most important words you will…

Continuing and concluding our journey through Genesis 26 and on into the tabernacle builders of Exodus, I want to encourage you in your own creative and entrepreneurial pilgrimage. Last time we looked at Exodus 35:10: “Every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded” …