Heidi and Rolland Baker have been a tremendous influence in my life. Through their book “Always Enough” my theology got rocked and my world got turned upside down!!! Through rivers of tears and gut-wrenching experiences reading these powerful testimonies, I confessed that I did not have the gospel!!!!! This was several years ago. This has [...]
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We have just returned from a small but in my view extremely strategic gathering of people in Madrid Spain. Your Kingdom Come conference was organized by my peeps in Madrid, Centro Cristiano Cuatro Vientos, and the speaker was none other than Pastor Kris Vallotton, one of my heroes from Bethel Church. There were few in [...]
This past Wednesday 10th December saw one of our favourite peeps in the world, Dalton and Vicky Jantzen visit us in Gibraltar. This guy baptized me 12 years ago in a swimming pool in the Spanish city of Seville, and although we have maintained contact through the marvel of the internet, we had not had [...]
I have recently returned from a historic gathering of pastors, ministry leaders and national influencers that was held at the historic St. George’s College in Windsor Castle. A few months ago Jaydan was scouring the Internet and he came across this “roundtable”, and with the special speakers being Bill Johnson, Che Ahn, and John [...]
Much has been happening at Living Waters during my blog’s lean-cows season. The most significant development by far is that I have invited two awesome guys to join me in the senior leadership team of the church.
During a church retreat held during the weekend of the 7th-9th November I managed to have [...]
“Ten steps to a new you!” “Be transformed by the power of positive thinking!” “You can if you think you can!” Heard this all before somewhere? The self-help industry is a multi-billionaire one. I know, I contributed a fair amount of greenbacks to help make it so, purchasing the latest [...]
This evening the pastors of seven churches in Gibraltar met for a discussion with Dr Derek Copley of the European Evangelical Alliance to explore various issues related with the setting up of an evangelical alliance of Gibraltar. The meeting went really well and we have decided to go ahead with the formation of this. [...]
Randy Bohlender of Stuff I Think fame has been at it again….he has messed with my head. His message has really become a ‘mess’-age and now I am all undone…..all because he writes about the heart of an 11 year old….that actually lived out the gospel when he “stopped for the one”, and actually made [...]
The power of doing nothing
04Sep08It was not meant to be this way! I had a fire burning within me, a dream of impacting my city with the message and power of Jesus Christ! In my mind, and in my heart, all systems were go. My internal dialogue went something like this, “You just wait and see….It [...]
Excuse me, can I help you?
02Sep08When I first started out in ministry I found myself within a church that had existed for 30 years but had never really had an effective counseling ministry. As part of the leadership team, I gave myself to meeting with people, hearing them out and having some sort of input in their lives. [...]
I was involved in a church leadership team some years back that stood at a bit of a crossroads. For years the leadership team had consisted of two main pastor-elders that had planted that church and faithfully led it for years. The problem was that this particular church was at a plateau. [...]
VALUING THE VOICE OF GOD
Every time God speaks to us there is a transfer of Kingdom realities into our hearts, and life is created. Learning to recognize the things that work to draw us away from the voice of God is a huge step in maturity. Sin and temptation are the easy things [...]
Sunday musings
10Aug08This is the inevitable navel-gazing post of a Sunday evening’s thoughts:
Attendance was poor – the summer dip thing really cuts here in the Mediterranean.
One of our worship guys was sick, and another had a prior engagement so we were down to one keyboard player for the service
Notwithstanding this, worship rocked! – Man, when the anointing [...]
Talking mission
07Aug08Spent over an hour this afternoon discussing mission and critiquing a missions trip that is currently underway with Pastor Aaron Berko of New Life church of Canterbury. With me was another local pastor, Sergio Revelli from The Cityline Church of Gibraltar. Pastor Aaron is a humble yet dynamic and humble man that certainly [...]
Sunday musings
04Aug08
We had the celebration service at a different location this Sunday - this was a double-edged sword.
It was great, because the facilities were awesome - a fully-equipped retreat center
It was not-so-great because when you are moving around, for some reason attendance takes a hit. At least in this part of the world it does. Permanency [...]
This is what I am dreaming about right now. The need is great - we need to raise and release revivalists who will usher in the Kingdom of Heaven in this city and region. What will it take? Shall we go full-throtle and open a School of Supernatural Ministry at our church?
C’MON!
Prepping for a Revolution
20Jul08This is what my message for this morning looks like:
Lessons from Celtic Christianity
19Jul08With the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, Western Europe was tribalised and run-over by many of the barbarian people groups native to these lands, and essentially became post-Christian In “The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again”, George G. Hunter III deals with how Celtic Christianity [...]
Bill Johnson was asked in an email, “How in God’s name can you endorse Todd Bentley?” This was his response:
Have you spent time with Todd? Do you know him? Have you watched him with his wife? Or have you seen how he treats his kids? Have you spent any time with his staff? [...]
I have just finished reading “The Starfish and the Spider” and have been blown away by the lessons that are in this book for the taking. If you are in a position of leadership in any type of organization, then the secrets laid out in this book will help you chart a course towards [...]
