These are difficult days for those who pastor God’s people. In many parts of the world, especially in the West, culture and society have turned away from their Christian past. It’s almost as if Christianity is passé, or even repulsive. Churches are profoundly divided over how to cope with this disorientating situation, and there is much unseemly confrontation in public debates.
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Are there what you might call normal moments from your childhood that you remember vividly? I expect we all have some. But, here’s a question: why do we remember those particular moments?
One thing these memories remind me is that there is a lot of life that is very normal, ordinary, repetitive, and seemingly insignificant. And yet it’s those forgotten, lived moments that shape us to be the people we are now.
Jesus, Strong and Kind seeks to sing these truths into our forgotten moments.
Once when I was much younger, our family was vacationing in Colorado. There were all sorts of activities at the conference center in the Sangre de Cristo range where we stayed, but one I remembered was horseback riding. Our entire family saddled up on several noble beasts and headed out for a leisurely plod over the surrounding territory. As time went by, two things became apparent.
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Recently, in a dusty corner of our warehouse we came across some books which, although unsellable now due to the absence of a barcode, are priceless in content. Re–published by CFP in 1989 Ourselves by Brownlow North was a hidden gem, one we confess to having almost forgotten.
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When was the last time you were at a ministry conference (or any sort of conference) and the speaker at the front was someone who had failed. That is, their plans, dreams and hopes for their project had decidedly dive–bombed? And if that kind of person was given the opportunity to speak, would we even be willing to listen, or is it just the ‘experts’ who have a track–record of ‘success’ that we care about?
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The death of someone you care about, whom you don’t think was saved, is surely one of the most heartbreaking of circumstances. It can haunt for a lifetime. Yet the eternal loss of unbelievers is something most believers experience several times over. Four times in Scripture, God condemns false prophets for ‘healing the wound of His people lightly’ and ‘saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.’[1]
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During 2024, Wycliffe Bible Translators celebrate the 700th anniversary of John Wycliffe’s birth in 1324. To commemorate the birth of this remarkable English Reformer, John Wycliffe – According to the Word has been published in the Trail Blazers series of the CF4K imprint of Christian Focus Publications.
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Jonathan Edwards wrote his seventy Resolutions over the course of a year or two from ages of eighteen to twenty. He then held himself to them weekly for the next thirty–five years. John Gillespie shows how we can benefit from these Resolutions too.
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Christian Focus Publications presents the books we have hand picked for you, during this Advent season.
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Everybody loves a good story. And there’s plenty of good stories to be found in the famed Lewis revival of 1949–52. Such as the seven men who prayed together in a cold barn through long winter’s nights, two or three times a week. Or the story of the two elderly Smith sisters – aged 84 and 82 years respectively; one completely blind, the other bent double with arthritis – who received premonitions from God that revival was coming, and prayed the movement into being.
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