It’s been humbling receiving some feedback about these few chapters I’ve shared from Spirited. To those of you who’ve said that it’s just been a teaser, well, there is a simple solution for that. You can now order the book, not pre-order! A couple just shared that they’re planning to read it together last thing […]
(From Part 7: The Sending Spirit) God creates the world, puts everything in order for vitality and sustainability, then asks Adam and Eve to have dominion over it. In my imagination, Adam and Eve, with a mixture of shock and exasperation at the enormity of the task, place an arm on their forehead and sigh, […]
(From Part 5: The Fruit of the Spirit) Our friend Theo was butchering and dressing a number of pigs, hard and messy work. There was a guy in town he’d met, Adam, who Theo had asked to come and help. It wasn’t only about free labour. Theo wanted the chance to hang out with Adam. […]
(From Part 4: The Spirit of Truth) Crud that hurt! Not the most flexible person in the world, my body complained as the physio bent parts of me into positions seen only in a circus. I’d gone to see him due to back pain that wasn’t going away. As I walked into his room, he […]
(From Part 2: The Promise of the Father) Like most people, I love promises. I especially love the promises in Scripture, promises we can claim and apply to our lives because they’ve been spoken out by God. Imagine my excitement, then, when I discovered that Jesus referred to Holy Spirit as “the promise of the […]
(From Part 1: Seven things I want you to know about me) The Holy Spirit longs for us to know: “I love it when things get messy.” There’s dirt, and then there’s mess. There’s bad mess, and then there’s good mess. Good mess is train tracks and Lego on the floor because the grandkids are […]
(From Part 1: Seven things I want you to know about me) The Holy Spirit longs for us to know: “I’m a person too you know.” One of the elementary things I believe the Holy Spirit would like to share with us is this: “I’m real. Really real. I’m a person.” Most people relish it […]
“Hey Sticks,” Charlie said into the phone, using my nickname, “what can you tell me about the Holy Spirit?” Charlie was twenty years old at the time and had grown up in a churched environment all his life, including a Christian school. He’d just been through a bit of a difficult patch, so I was […]