Teaching Articles
Finding Love: The Greater Love Story
Each marriage, each love story, and even the longing to find a mate, I believe is intended by God to point us to a far greater love story, which is the love of the Messiah for His bride. I was recently impacted by the modern-day story of a young couple who chose to go...
Overcoming Disappointment: Finding Love God’s Way
As a young single man, I came to dread Valentine’s Day. Over the top marketing emphasised this day as a wonderful moment to celebrate love with your significant other, yet here I was, alone. It seemed so easy for friends around me to find love, but my own 13-year...
Hanukkah – Talk About Bravery
those who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits…’Dan 11:32While this verse has been a source of encouragement to countless Christians down through the ages, in its original prophetic context its bright encouragement shines even brighter. To...
Hebraic Prayer Part 4: Conforming to God’s Will
“Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word…” Acts 4:29 In this last and final instalment of our teaching series on Hebraic prayer, we discover that prayer is not about making God conform to our wishes,...
Hebraic Prayer Part 3: More Corporate than Personal
“Lord, bless me and my wife, my son, and his wife, us four, no more, Amen” Modern Christian prayers can easily slide into the trap of becoming all about me and my needs, rather than about God, or about the community in which He has placed us. In sharp contrast,...
Hebraic Prayer Part 2: Bible Based Prayer
“…who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: …The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord and against His Christ.’” Acts 4:25-26 NKJV In the first part of our series on Hebraic prayer, we began to examine the...
Moving a bit slowly?
My wife and I were recently praying over a decision, and I really didn't want to make the change. I had a number of reasons to hesitate, and I felt even saddened by the change, but deep down I think I knew that God wanted us to take this step. As I prayed, the Lord...
Insights from Hebraic Prayer – Part 1, Exalting the Creator
We read in Acts chapter 4 how the disciples gathered to pray after receiving multiple venomous threats from the priestly authorities. The power of their prayer was such that when they had finished praying, the place where they gathered was shaken, they were all filled...
When delay is deadly
Lot made it out of wicked Sodom by the skin of his teeth, and his dilly-dallying almost cost him his life. But to understand the source of his delay, we have to turn our attention back two generations to his grandfather, Terah. The Bible tells us that Terah came from...