Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

Again, I am not talking about the peace of God or the peace we have with God – those are going to last forever.  If you are born again, there is never a moment that you do not have peace with God -it will never run out and never end. No, I mean in thisContinue reading “Thriving in the Battle 04: Peace is Temporary!”

1 Cor. 15.58 tells us that we need to be steadfast and unmoveable!  You see one of the worst things that happens in war, when there is a pandemic, when there is a lockdown, when there is a Goliath, when there is financial pressure, when there is pain, when there is war is that weContinue reading “Thriving in Battle 03: Keep Your Eye on the Prize”

Matthew 11.12 says that from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Some things have to be taken by force.  Not because God does not want us to have them – in fact, we know it is the Father’s pleasure andContinue reading “Thriving in Battle 02: Take Things By Force”

Isaiah tells us that “every battle of the warrior is with confused noise” (Isaiah 9.5).  In the middle of war, things are confusing, they look confusing, they sound confusing.  As Christians we are in a battle to change this world, so you will have to get used to things being confusing. Right now there isContinue reading “Thriving in Battles 01: Get Used to Confusion”

Some weeks are longer than others. Not objectively of course, they all have 7 days. 168 hours, so many minutes and so on, but some weeks feel longer, just so much happens. When you are pastoring – also when you are in travelling ministry too, but it hits apostles and pastors more – you haveContinue reading “Letting Jesus Wash Your Feet”

People who have no fruit in the area they are talking about. People who do not practise what they preach People who major on minors and do not ever grasp the main concepts. People who make sweeping generalizations. They say things like “You always…”, “You never…” People who do not want your best People whoContinue reading “7 People Not to Listen To”

Everywhere I go to minister, even conferences I just go to sit and rest and be fed, I always get asked the same two questions, firstly, how do I get on TV, and secondly, how do I start a church, or sometimes from a pastor who has a church but didn’t start it, how doContinue reading “Simple Advice to Church Planters”

Rehoboam although related to the wisest man alive at the time decided to reject the advice of his father’s generation and exclusively listened to his peers. The problem was his peers were too rough and hard, and Rehoboam needed to be tempered by the voice of wisdom. It concerns me to see so many ofContinue reading “Your Peers Are Not Good Enough”

We have been spending a lot of time in this series looking at the difference between reigning as a king and ruling as a politician, and we found out that we are called to be kings not politicians, that we are supposed to rule through our birth right and not through the will of theContinue reading “Kings and Priests 08: Reclaiming Your Authority”

10. The people who need to be there the most will not be there. Their excuses will be the most bizarre and pitiful. 9. If the budget is met, about 20% of people in the room will be those who met it. They will be the ones who put in more than the average costContinue reading “Ten Laws of Christian Conferences”