The 11th Commandment Such was the title of a children’s story my own children listened to countless times when they were small. It was about a family who were waiting for a guest pastor to arrive, and stay with them over Saturday night, before his visit to their church the next day. The parents were annoyed when a violent storm brought a stranger to their door, whose car had broken down nearby. They let him in most reluctantly, as they…
We Are at War! There is a war going on in the world today, and I’m not talking about Ukraine or other visible wars. This war is against us, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. We see it all around us in the perverse and wicked ideologies that have been in the works for decades, but have crept in and taken over most noticeably in the past few years. We see this all around us, not only in the…
How can I know the will of God? Does God speak to us today? How do you know if it’s God who is leading you to do something? Someone asked me that a couple of years ago, and I said it’s a deep, established, quiet inner knowing; restful, and not chaotic. What I meant was, God does not torment us or badger us the way the enemy of our soul does. My friend agreed wholeheartedly. But it soon became evident…