Juma Ikangaa is a marathon runner from Tanzania, who is arguably best known for coming second three times in the Boston Marathon, from 1988-1990. Over his career he won various marathons around the world, from Tokyo, to Beijing and Melbourne. In 1989 he won the 1989 New York City Marathon in a course- record time. […]
Read MoreWorship is Love Expressed
In 1992 when Gary Chapman released his book, Five Love Languages, he recognised that the way we give and receive love matters in relationships. To simply feel love for someone is not sufficient to express love to them. Neither, perhaps more surprisingly, is even expressing love the way we prefer to express it. To really […]
Read MorePrayer is Conversation
Elijah is frustrated, frightened, overwhelmed, disappointed, and depressed. At Mount Carmel he had taken a risk and entered into a contest with the prophets of Baal to see whose God was most powerful. The prophets of Baal pray and pray and pray, but to no avail. Nothing happens and their carefully prepared sacrifice is untouched […]
Read MoreThe Practice of Prayer 2
We live in a world that is spiritual. It seems we enjoy the notion of being connected with the divine, and so we worships all manner of things, in all manner of ways. Arguably though, for all our spirituality we don’t live in a world that want’s friendship with God. In Psalm 25: 14, the […]
Read MoreIsn’t She Beautiful
What is the church? A building? A location? An institution? A denomination? ἐκκλησία (ecclesia) is the word in the New Testament for church. It is not a particularly religious term. It is a gathering of people, whether that be citizens gathered for a civic purpose, or soldiers gathered for military purposes. An ecclesia is a […]
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