God, you are timelessly God
A reflection for use in worship. perhaps divided between different voices. It is a free version of Psalm 90, a familiar Psalm traditionally subtitled 'a prayer of Moses, the man of God'.
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Hundred year vision
At the 2008 New Wine Leaders' Conference in Harrogate main sessions were led by Bill Johnson from Redding, California. He has been an outstanding teacher and practitioner for churches moving forward in God's purpose. This is not a summary of what he offered but a very few quotations....
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Village of Bobole
During our stay at the Iris Ministries centre in the Mozambican capital of Maputo my wife and I, with another visitor from England, spent 24 hours with a pastor in a rural village some distance from the city.
'In any and all circumstances...'
Paul says he has learned the secret, in whatever circumstances, to be content in them (Philippians 4.11-12). I was once tempted to write this Bible reference in the Comments column of a dreadful guesthouse in Newcastle - but in the end was content not to. Paul has known contrasts in his life - substantially different situations at different times of well-offness and deprivation....
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Prayer
God our Father,
Your will be done through your Church.
We do not ask it with passive resignation
but in active pursuit of what pleases you.
Risen Jesus,
Do what is in your own heart to do,
Drawing many more to be your disciples.
Come, Holy Spirit.
Show us your fresh touch on inherited things.
Help us beyond the limits of our own resource.
Lord God, your purposes.
Jesus Christ, your passion.
Holy Spirit, your power.