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Every born-again Christian is in covenant with God to the point where we call the books of the Bible written to us as the New Covenant.  We have promises of healing.  Now sometimes, we are standing on that covenant, and it becomes hard to keep standing – we get weary of doing good, weary ofContinue reading “Healing Leaves 02: The Woman with No Covenant”

One of the promises that God gave me in 2012 was that the leaves of the Tree of Life would bring healing to the nations (you can find this promise in Revelation 22.2), and when God showed this to me, He was talking about several things, not least of which was the healing of racialContinue reading “Healing Leaves 01: Healing in the Church”

One of the charismatic traditions that have sprung up in the last few decades is the idea that we can, through our behaviour and actions, lose our anointing.  There are teachers telling us we can lose our anointing, Christian magazine articles telling us how to guard our anointing, prophets prophesying people will lose their anointingContinue reading “Losing Your Anointing – Really?”

I am all for honouring those people God has called and anointed, especially when it is clear they have developed a lifestyle of wisdom and submission to God to walk in their dreams and have significant grace to impart to you. I have a number of people who are my mentors, my pastors, who IContinue reading “When Honour Becomes Idolatry”

According to an email I got today, unless we use the name “Yahweh” to worship God we are worshipping an idol.A word never once used by Jesus, Paul, Peter, that never appears in any of the New Testament – even when quoting the Old Testament.Paul happily called Yeshua Iesous because that was His name inContinue reading “Yahweh or the Highway?”

I don’t normally comment on stories like this, I don’t think they are edifying, and they can easily degenerate into gossip, judging, and getting in the way of someone trying to walk through things, but because of the sheer amount of this person’s songs that have been sung at Tree of Life, and because soContinue reading “Apostasy – but why?”

Two or three times this week, I was discussing the idea of planting a church in a certain place and someone else suggested rather than start a church, start a Bible College or a meeting or ministry. Now, leaving the fact that Biblically the only way Christians ever advanced the kingdom of God was throughContinue reading “Church Life 02: The Primacy of Church”

When I started Tree of Life Church nearly ten years ago, I always knew there would be perseuction. The Bible is so clear that if you want to live godly in Christ Jesus you will be persecuted, and I know there is nothing more godly than planting new churches and building up the church, soContinue reading “Church Life 01: Why Bang on About It”

2 Cor. 9.10 says that God will increase the fruits of our righteousness.  Now, we cannot be any more righteous from the moment we become born again, but we can become more fruitful in our righteousness.  We can be more aware that we are righteous, and more aware of His goodness in our life, andContinue reading “The Fruits of Righteousness 01: First Thoughts about Fruits of Righteousness”

We are continuing our series on the reality that whatever the world says we, as Christians, should think the opposite. Nearly every worldly proverb or pithy saying is the polar opposite of Biblical truth. One that is particularly important for growing in grace is that you need to understand that too many cooks do notContinue reading “Whatever the World Says Think the Opposite 02: You Need the Cooks!”