PREACHED BY PHIL ARNOLD ON JULY 23, 2017 AT JCC, HEREFORD. A FURTHER MESSAGE IN THE SERIES 'OUT OF THE WILDERNESS' Introduction 1. Creating space 2. Reclaiming space 3. A seismic change: change the default Prayer response Introduction God is doing a new thing, Isa. 43:19, and He wants us to join Him in it. That is a call to 'come out of the wilderness' and raise our expectation of what He will do in our lives. Part of that is taking back time and opportunity for Him – reclaiming spaces. As disciples of Jesus, we make space in our busy lives – or … [Read more...]
The Narrow Way
Unity is a choice to follow what God is saying The path that leads up to Table Mountain, Crickhowell, almost disappears at times Matt. 7:13 NET 13Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Introduction EVERY day we are faced with choices. Some are routine and trivial. We're talking here about the more than trivial choices, choices of direction or … [Read more...]
Trusting in the unseen
Household gods of the Old Testament era “Am I a God near at hand only, not a God when far away?” In Jeremiah’s time, a god that was close at hand was a pagan god figure you could see and carry around – god in your pocket, if you like. The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob was ‘far away’ or at least, unseen and only experienced by faith. When the going gets tough, the tough get going – according to the popular saying. Get going with what? Get going with whom? Live the Way of Jesus How we see God is crucial to how we set about this. To live the Way of … [Read more...]
Seven signs that harmony with heaven needs tuning
Matthew 20:20-21 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” The verses in Matthew 20 (read also Jesus’ response!) highlight the kind of ‘flesh’ issues which rise up and need to be tackled honestly before we can find real, spiritual, heaven-harmonies … [Read more...]