Judges 6:36-40

I'm curious and slightly confused by today's passage, are we to put God to the test as Gideon did with the fleece, not once, but twice? Should we look for signs in this way? Answers please.

Mandy

Deepened call for mission after a trip to Iona

I spent last week on Iona, a tiny island off the coast of Scotland in the inner Hebrides. On this island, St Columba brought the gospel to Scotland and Northern England. This was an amazing experience for me where I found my faith deepened and renewed. One day was spent retracing the footsteps of St Columba by undertaking a prayer walk with non stop wind and rain! We were able to spend time reflecting on St Columba's own missionary zeal as he landed in his coracle on Iona from Ireland.

Keeping praying for others

My wife Sarah and I are praying for our wider family to come to faith, particularly mine as there are very few Christians in my immediate family. Recently, a female cousin who is getting married soon, called me to say she’d be in Leicester and wanted to see us. During the conversation, I mentioned that I’d come to faith in the last few years and told her my story. She was very interested but we left it there and prayed. We then went to see my sister for a birthday party and the same cousin was there. I spoke with her sister and her mum telling them my story but did not say a great deal more to her as we left it until she came up. 

One Of Those Little God Moments...

I set myself a task to walk for an hour and found a phone on the floor at the halfway point of my alloted time. I then received a phonecall from someone in the park calling on behalf of the woman who lost it. She was still in the park LOL!

Lateral thinking

One of our MSC members made an interesting point this week. She said that it was a big leap for enquirers from Questions events to the next stage, which is the Alpha Course.

Psalm 103

Today’s reading is my favourite Psalm; it just has everything in it. “Praise my soul and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all our sins and heals all your diseases". Wow how amazing is that, we have a God who redeems our life from the pit and crowns us with Love and Compassion. Who is compassionate and gracious and slow to anger, abounding in Love.

Thank you Lord for saving me and for all that you have done for me.

Mandy

Wind of the Spirit

I had the idea (with a smile) of putting a wind turbine on top of the church steeple. We could produce all our own power and sell what was left over - a bit like the widow's oil in 2 Kings 4 v1-7.  I realise of course that the structure would be too weak and the planning authorities would not allow it...

Intimacy

I have been challenged lately to remember that all we do needs to come from a place of knowing who we are and, perhaps more importantly, WHOSE we are, rather than in what we do. That's difficult for an activist!!

God at work in the everyday

Continuing on from the theme of testimonies from the previous Sunday, I shared at last Thursday’s lunchtime prayer time, thankfulness to God in honouring my prayers, that had started at the beginning of the week, regarding two work ‘issues’ (the kind of workaday problems we all face). What I didn’t know at the time, was that I was to be faced by an even larger ‘issue’ on Friday – the sort that seems to come from nowhere!