“I wonder how they’re doing back home?” I caught myself saying the other day. England has suffered badly with Covid, with still no sign of relief. We have friends there who’ve recovered from the virus. My wife and I moved to New Zealand in 2005. Surely, it’s home by now? How long do we live in a place before it […]
Guest post by Julie Young, Canterbury Evangelism Network Demons can put thoughts, songs or images in your head or give you feelings (e.g. fear). Any negative thought is usually from them. Over time you will get faster at distinguishing between what is your thinking and what is not and getting rid of it. My experience I used to think the […]
I was busy wiping a cow’s backside when the Lord spoke. On our farm in England, we kept 150 dairy cows. We struggled to make money, so we decided to keep pedigree Holsteins, worth several times an ordinary cow. Their daughters could fetch thousands of pounds. The only thing was, you had to take them to livestock shows. If they […]
The worship service seemed to dissolve. I became aware of a small church on a broad rise, set in rolling countryside. A small crowd emerged from the south door, laughing together. To the right, beneath the sun-bright sky, a gentle breeze wafted the scent of elderflowers from the verdant hedgerows. It was a perfect English day in May. But not […]
I stood surrounded by thirty thousand others, watching the impossible. The biggest tent in the world soared seventy feet above me. Outside, Soweto, South Africa. Inside, holy chaos. People danced. People jumped and sang and praised God, their faces alight. No one praises God like Africans. Too reserved to join in, I merely grinned. Then I heard these words. “Now […]