4 weeks of exploring prayer. 4 weeks of exploring fasting. The next one in the book is 4 weeks of bible study. Now I have a reasonable knowledge of the bible. I am by no means a biblical scholar but I know enough to be able to quote encouraging verses, and I know a lotContinue reading “Hunting for God: Study and the Bible”
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Hunting for God: Fasting, Final Week
So here we are, the final week of fasting. Once again posting on the wrong day. No excuse, just ran out of time due to other commitments like being able to see my family in person for the first time in 4 months. Although I’ve still got a further 10 days of my personal fast,Continue reading “Hunting for God: Fasting, Final Week”
Hunting for God: Fasting week 2
Cake… So much cake…. So, week 2 of fasting was much harder than week one. I found myself baking muffins for a friends birthday, and lots of tray bakes for church to give away to the local community on Easter Sunday. And all without being able to taste them…. (That’s why this post is aContinue reading “Hunting for God: Fasting week 2”
Hunting for God: Fasting week 1
Think I’ve now mastered how to keep track of the weeks in the title without confusing myself! Took long enough… Anyway, I’m sure you’ve been eagerly awaiting to find out what I’m fasting. So I prayed and I think the best thing for me to say here is I think God wants me to fastContinue reading “Hunting for God: Fasting week 1”
Hunting for God: Prayer week 4, and a new challenge
This is the last week with prayer as the focus. I don’t mean I’m going to stop praying (in fact, in the last couple of days I’ve found another book with some helpful thoughts), but the book I’m following by Jo Swinney (God Hunting) does 4 weeks, then focuses on a different discipline. Last weekContinue reading “Hunting for God: Prayer week 4, and a new challenge”
Hunting for God: Prayer week 3
After three weeks I do feel like this has been a useful hunt for me. Each week I’ve come to this point and feel like I have something worth sharing. I’m aware this is a hope blog, so what I’m hoping is that anyone reading this will see how my hunt for a deeper relationshipContinue reading “Hunting for God: Prayer week 3”
Hunting for God through… Prayer
Apologies, yesterday’s post on what is a spiritual discipline didn’t get uploaded. So here’s the short version: My understanding is that spiritual disciplines are like building blocks in a growing relationship with God. If you were an athlete you’d have exercises to help you train, and artist of any sort has different techniques to practiceContinue reading “Hunting for God through… Prayer”
Hunting for God in lent
In the Christian calendar, today is Ash Wednesday. It marks 40 days leading towards Easter when we remember Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness before being tempted by the devil. Some people will give something up for lent either as a personal challenge or for spiritual reasons. OK, boring background bit over. I’m notContinue reading “Hunting for God in lent”
Inspiring others with our story
I always try to find a way to link what I’m trying to say back to the bible. Because ultimately that’s an historical document which I believe can be relied upon. There are scholars out there (more specialised than me) who can show how reliable the bible is as a document using the dates andContinue reading “Inspiring others with our story”
God goes before
We come to the end of the strangest year I have lived through. Back in January I was excited and raring to go. I set faith targets, spent some time with God while staying with a friend, allowed myself to dream big, made 6-month, 12-month and 5-year plans and just generally got ready for anContinue reading “God goes before”
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