Honest Answer #2 How’s Your Prayer Life?

If you’re one of the 500 people who responded to our first Honest Answers quick poll on you & your Bible – thank you so much.

Honest Answers #1 How Often Do You Read Your Bible?

Very soon I’ll be publishing some more posts about the wonderful intimacy with God available to each one of us. But before I do, I’m putting 3 QUICK-POLLS into the field in what I’ve called the Honest Answers Series.

The best way not to miss out on each one as it comes out is to subscribe to this blog- that way you’ll be automatically notified of the polls and the findings at the end. (Email subscription is just up to the right on this page).

Steadying the Ship on a Stormy Ocean

There are few things as frightening as a stormy ocean. I’ve often watched the grey waves whipped up by a storm, crashing on rocks below, from my very safe vantage point on land. I’m definitely a land-lover – solid ground beneath my feet … doesn’t get any better than that.

I suspect that’s pretty natural. We all like security.

5 Steps Closer to God – Taking Step 5

We’ve all seen those movies that start with a message in a bottle. You know, it comes bobbing across the ocean from the other side of the world and it’s washed up on a beach somewhere, and someone comes along and finds the bottle.

5 Steps Closer to God – Taking Step 4

Okay, so we can discover God right in the middle of the cut and thrust of life. But what about those quite times?

We’re so busy and connected these days – the gadgets, social media, entertainment choices – do we have time for unhurried, quiet fellowship with God? For many a Christ-follower the answer – let’s be blunt about this – is “No”.

5 Steps Closer to God – Taking Step 3

Question: can we know God in the midst of the cut and thrust of life? Right in the middle of what we do each day – be it work, bringing up children, ministry … whatever it is that occupies us. The great tragedy is that many have accepted a poverty of actual relationship with Jesus in their day to day life.

5 Steps Closer to God – Taking Step 2

There are so many people who ache for intimacy with God; who hunger to know Him in their day to day experience … and yet for whom such intimacy is such an elusive thing. It should never be so!

Because God’s plan is to come and live with us; to actually set up home in us.

5 Steps Closer to God – Taking Step 1

Sometimes we imagine that God is a million miles away … or at least, that’s how it feels. The thing is, it’s just not true!

Some years ago, I wrote a short book called How to Get Close to God. The truths that I discovered in God’s Word about being close to Him (or not) were so simple, so straightforward and so direct, that I was a little embarrassed even to call it a “book”.