Posts Tagged ‘Grace’

I was talking to someone recently about one of the biggest pressures which faces pastors. It is based on the chasm which can separate people’s expectations of you as a pastor (as if you were some kind of ’super Christian’) and the reality of one’s own sinful heart.

Here are a few observations.
There is, at [...]

I was reading in John 5 this morning and I was horrified again by the reaction of the Pharisees (*) to Jesus’ work, and then even more horrified by the realisation that I can be like them so easily.

Do you remember the scene? There’s a man who has been paralysed for thirty-eight years (v5) [...]

We’ve just got back from a few days at the Living Leadership conference. What a blessing that has been to us. Some space, some fantastic reminders of God’s grace, great company and fellowship, wonderful food. Bring on next year, and many thanks to our generous church for enabling us to go.
It also [...]

Whiter than snow. (that all rhymes – how lovely!)
This is a refreshing little series of meditations on Psalm 51. They will warm your soul and keep grace where it should be – at the forefront of our hearts and minds.

We had an encouraging exposition in chapel this morning of 2 Kings 5. We were reminded of the incredible grace of our God as worked out in the life of Naaman – an enemy of God’s people, and yet miraculously healed at no cost. Our attention was brought to the way he became, [...]