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DEREK PRINCE-A BIOGRAPHY
Author-Stephen Mansfield
Publisher-Derek Prince Ministries.UK
ISBN-1-90114-429-1 Hardback.
CONVERGENCE
SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS OF A CHARISMATIC CALVINIST Author-SAM STORMS
Publisher-Enjoying God Ministries
ISBN-0-9771739-0-9
MORNING MUSING July 6, 2011 BORNE ALONG
When I was a youngster sitting in church, I remember the preachers say sometimes, “The Bible is not a TEXT book but a TEST book. You must TEST your life by it and your church too.” I thought this a good phrase and there are occasions when it is of vital importance for us to examine our lives, testing both our personal experience and our church life by what is revealed in the general tenor of the scriptures. I do not mean the isolated happenings that can be found in the Bible, but the way the stream of God’s will and purpose flows unchangingly on. His methods remain unaltered in the unfolding of His story through the centuries. He speaks from heaven and His plan is accomplished; He spoke and it was done. Now let us test ourselves and our churches by one of the great Bible themes encapsulated in something the Apostle Peter wrote at the end of his life.
MORNING MUSING April 05, 2011 O STILL SMALL VOICE OF CALM
If you visited our home, almost immediately you entered you would find, hanging on the wall, a framed copy of the poem from which the title words of this musing are taken. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as “the Quaker Poet” and lived in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. “O still small voice of calm” is the last line of what became his best known hymn which begins “Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways,” to me the six stanzas that make up this hymn have always been very meaningful capturing as they do what is so central and yet can be often lacking in our Christian experience. These verses, when read on their own; might appear rather sentimental to some readers, but if they are considered in the context of the poem from which they are taken they make powerful sense.
THE CHURCH AND THE SPIRIT. MORNING MUSING December 7, 2009
If we were carefully putting first things first, we should really entitle this musing “The Spirit and the church,” but because we in the churches tend to have a lot more consciousness of ourselves than the Spirit we put church before Spirit and herein lies the source of many problems. Ownership of the church is one of several serious issues facing Christian congregations in today.