I’m seriously impressed by UCCF’s Free campaign to get the gospel out amongst universities in Britain. There was nothing like this when I was at university, five years ago now! They have beautifully presented Mark’s gospel with 8 different cover designs for people to read and encounter the Word of God. I would love a resource like this to get our youth reading their Bibles more.
When you realise that all your life is for God, belongs to God it really changes your view. To waste you sexuality is to think that it is only about this moment… Joshua Harris
Watch the video for the full quote below. Joshua has also written books about young people in Godly relationships which are really helpful. I have just recommended book “Boy meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship” to our youth group.
Great Revivals - When God moves in Power
As author, Colin Whittaker, explains ‘I am aware that I have only managed to dip my teacup into the boundless oceans of the Holy Spirit’s refreshing‘ the book Great Revivals is a great introduction to some of the major revivals that have occurred in the past centuries. Each chapter provides historic accounts of the various major “Awakenings” located around the world. These included 17 century revivals in places like England and New England (America) involving such figures as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield and John Wesley. This third edition of the book has also presented Colin’s delving into more recent revival in places like China, Korea, Indonesia, Africa and Latin America.
So while everyone was blogging on the resurrection I was doing something else, enjoying a weeks holiday. But it doesn’t have to be an Easter week to consider the amazing gift of freedom that’s tied up in Jesus’ death and coming back to life. I thought I would present a list of evidence for the resurrection for those not so convinced and for those looking to present the case for Jesus being alive today. Taken from John Youngs ‘the case against Christ’
It looks like the Treasure Trail Healing Stories I blogged about in my last post, “Treasure Hunting Leads to Seven Youth Heald!“, are inspired by a Book by Kevin Dedmon called “The Ultimate Treasure Hunt“. I have added it to the Library section on this website, man I really want to read it! If you want to have an advanced read before you get your mits on it can do that on the US Amazon site. Thanks to Nat Carey for pointing the book out to me.
We as Christians seem to either go jelly at the knees or “wowzer!” when we hear of stories of people getting healed today. I was suddenly struck that actually we have a whole Bible crammed with awesome stories and practical examples where people have been healed by God’s power. These are reasons enough to get out there and begin praying for people, but Jesus says something that I feel gives us total permission and freedom in the knowledge that we too can do this work and heal people in John 14:12-14. Thank you Jesus!
I know I need to stop looking at the tails where Jesus healed as a surface stories but dive deep in to the relevancy they have for us today and to not only think about it but get practical about it because they are strong exhortations to GET CRACKING for HIS KINGDOM!
Been reading a book called Surprised by the Voice of God by a dude called Jack Deere which is all about prophesy.
The author demonstrates that we need to learn the Holy Spirit’s language (how he speaks to us) and provides the example of his small children when they lived in Germany for a year. In learning the lingo his children played with the local German children and made headway with the language. Being tiny their motivation was playing with people their own age and they were not shy to try new things, they knew it was available to them. In comparison their father had dug into text books and was a little too proud to make language mistakes in front of people so refrained from giving the language practice.
Reading this I was reminded of the verse in Matthew where Jesus says that the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are like Children.
“but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 19:14)
It struck me that we always give this verse in relation to a Child’s belief, but thinking about it seems to relate more to a Child’s zealous attitude to a task. They play with passion and spare no thought to what they look like or the way they do things. This is the way they learn and progress. I can remember when I was a kid all a wanted to do was have fun and play but I enjoyed learning too, I was always asking questions even if they sounded silly.
However I can remember the point I stopped trying to look silly. I was with my family at an airport and upon seeing a group of nuns asked my dad why their attire was so odd. He said “why don’t you ask them?” I was eight and was becoming more aware of what people thought of me and so didn’t approach them. I wish I had.
If we want to attain and retain God’s Kingdom (his amazing and tangible rule) at work today we need to be like children, being passionate to learn the language of God. It means actively removing any proud thought that stops giving glory to him. God can use people who put aside worrying thoughts and who understand that their lives are crucified and resurrected in Jesus. Church home groups are a wonderful place to learn how to listen to what God is saying. He is always saying something. Give his language a shot, be open and listening.
I’ll do a proper review of the book in coming weeks when I have finished reading it. So far so good though.
This is the site of web enthusiast Dan Lee. He is pretty normal most of the time and likes smoothies, drumming, movie making, designing, being Church and knowing Jesus.
Enter the query to search and hit enter.
Copyright © 2004–2009. All rights reserved.
RSS Feed. This blog is proudly powered by Wordpress and uses Modern Clix, a theme by Rodrigo Galindez.
