I felt I should pass on this news. The surprising story of Todd Bentley continues in the following paragraphs from a statement released by Rick Joyner: "When Todd’s marriage failed, he abruptly stopped all ministry and virtually disappeared for almost nine months. In the meantime, his divorce was ...

Its way past time I announced the winners of the Vintage Church competition. I had a lot of entries and its only now that I have managed to squeeze in some time to judge them. Ten copies will be given away free, provided the people involved all get me their addresses. Facebook There are two winners ...

I will simply let "The Doctor" speak for himself today. This has to be one of the most challenging quotes from him I have ever read: ". . . The secret of the early Christians, the early Protestants, Puritans and Methodists was that they were taught about the love of Christ, and they became filled wi...

Its time I reinstated Piper Friday here, It had never been canceled, merely put on hold! Writing a book has taught me that many tasks take a lot longer than our instant coffee generation wants us to believe. My deadline rapidly approaches now, but I hope that in many ways my book is the product not ...

You my blog readers are now becoming my instant focus group. Having been sure for ages that "Resurrection Empowered Life" was the right title for my future book, I am now having significant doubts. So, basically, I want to give you a chance to pop over to my facebook group, my twitter page or just e...

During Tim Keller's second session with Newfrontiers he spoke on the importance of cities.Cities are strategic and have lots of people yet they are poorly served by the Church. Disporportionately important and disproportionately underepresented in terms of ministry. This is not to say that every Chr...

Earlier in the week, Tim Keller spoke at a Newfrontiers event. He gave three posts, and I was there taking notes but I am really sorry that this is the first chance I have got to tidy them up for publication. There were over 800 people there to hear him. As usual these notes are coloured a bit by my...

One of the tragedies of the modern church is that we just don't seem to understand a lesson the Moses learnt from his father-in-law. Sadly we fail to realise that not every godly Christian leader should aspire to be the so-called "number one" leader of a church. Many churches are started and do not ...

NWA1 30th March - 4th April 2009 Speakers include Don Carson, Terry Virgo, Vaughan RobertsPlease note that New Word Alive 1 does not have a children’s or youth programme for those aged 5-18. NWA2 4th April - 9th April 2009 Speakers include Don Carson, Terry Virgo, Liam GolligherPlease note that Ne...

Jonathan Edwards teaches the doctrine of perseverance in this passage, which is about as far removed from the easy believism most understand when they say "once saved always saved" as you can get. " . . .as soon as ever a soul has put forth one act of faith towards Jesus, it becomes interested in hi...