Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave. (Matthew 10.14, NLT) Listen carefully – some people just don’t care for you or your message. It’s time to get over your own ego and realize that. Not everyone cares about yourContinue reading “You Are Not Smarter than Jesus 02: Shake the Dust off Your Feet”

I was talking to someone over the weekend about pastoral ministry and they had some questions about how to deal with a certain situation they were facing as a pastor, as I encouraged them from the Word of God on how to proceed, they said something that has been resonating in my spirit last nightContinue reading “You Are Not Smarter than Jesus 01: Be Aware of Human Nature”

Today we are starting a new series which I believe will benefit all pastors everywhere.  One of the most important roles of a pastor – or any leader – is to lead people to be more based and more secure on the Word of the Lord, the Scripture.  So we are going to give someContinue reading “Leading With the Word 01: Prophets and the Bible”

Some people do not know the difference between good soil and bad soil. The quality of the soil affects the return from the seed – which is why Jesus never bothered debating the Pharisees and you should not throw your pearls before swine: because they didn’t have a clue what was going on. You areContinue reading “Lies That Stop the Harvest 10: Ignorance of Good Soil”

Ask and it shall be given to you – Jesus (Matthew 7.7) Jesus said ask and you will get it. Despite what your grandmother told you that “askers don’t git”, that’s not true according to the Lord and Creator of the Universe. You need to ask. And that doesn’t just mean asking God, but itContinue reading “Lies That Stop the Harvest 09: A Failure to Ask”

When you increase in wisdom, you increase in finances! Proverbs 8 tells us that riches and honour are tied to wisdom (v. 14) and that if you love wisdom, God will fill your treasures (v. 21). Let me say this another way: to gain wealth, you need to become good at what you do. Study!Continue reading “Lies That Stop the Harvest 08: Failure to Obtain Wisdom”

The truth that has to be said over and over is that to disobey God’s Word is to bring loss into your life, and to obey God’s Word is to bring prosperity into your life. Now when I share that with people, someone will always bring up the wicked people that are doing quite wellContinue reading “Lies That Stop The Harvest 07: Sloth”

:  Every seed has inside it an invisible instruction manual, and if you could somehow look closely enough you could see it. The apple seed is designed to produce apples, the orange seed oranges, the tomato seed tomatoes. When you sow a seed, there is absolutely zero doubt that the seed you sow will produceContinue reading “Lies That Stop the Harvest 06: A Failure to Give Assignment to Your Seed”

You cannot muck around when it comes to character, it’s that simple. A lot of people do not realize that character and prosperity are linked, but they are. I spoke to a multi-millionaire entrepreneur once, a man so good at making money they asked him to be on Dragon’s Den. He told me he hadContinue reading “Lies That Stop the Harvest 05: Refusing To Deal With A Weakness”

I am currently doing a new programme of weightlifting designed by a fantastic top level body builder. One of his catchphrases is “Train With Purpose”. His idea is that you don’t just walk into a gym and do what you feel, but you plan everything with a purpose so that every exercise and every repContinue reading “TWP Train With Purpose”