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Don’t you love the humour of scripture when an angel appears to Gideon, he calls Gideon a mighty man of valor. Gideon at the time is hiding in a winepress for fear of the Midianites. Just because an angel appears it gives no guarantees of safety other than the LORD is with you. Just because God says do […]
“We have lost our ability to be uncertain.” so says Brene Brown. Before we do anything we need nowadays to remove any risk of failure. Therefore we don’t actually use our faith. Faith which goes into uncertain situations has gone out of fashion. We have exchanged faith for certainty. How pathetic? Take a step of faith Invite […]
Cheeky, to me, means that someone is playful with their interaction, with another person. Jesus for example was very cheeky when he invited himself around to Zacchaeus house for tea. At least it was an unusual dinner invitation! In invitation where two are gathered in my name I am their in the midst. So try being […]
These two videos were recorded in Houston Texas for the LOGOS project https://vimeo.com/61114128 https://vimeo.com/61132257
You know that experience when you have been lying on your arm and all of a sudden it has gone numb and you can’t feel it anymore. You have to shake it and move it in order to get the feeling back. In invitation I have discovered that we have numbed the feeling of fear by ignoring it. […]
At every seminar I hear one of the audience tell me that they are not going to be doing any inviting because they want to be sure that they will get a positive reaction from their friend. As they don’t expect a positive reaction, they therefore don’t invite. This attitude is about getting something back […]
I have wondered about the apathy in our Christian lives for a while now. There are some of us who are apparently mission-minded and some of us are not. A natural result when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our […]