On Sunday, all over the world Russians and Ukrainians worshiped together in Russian Orthodox Churches, except of course in Russia itself, where Patriarch Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow and Russia, remains in step with Mr. Putin, in full approval of Putin’s war on Ukraine. From all around the world...
Olympic organisers were forced to deploy “thousands” of staff to clear real snow off slopes that they had spent millions of pounds covering in man-made stuff in the first place. The Zhangjiakou and Yanqing mountain clusters where almost all skiing and snowboarding events are taking place (Big Air being the...
I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, Rank me with whom You will; Put me to doing, put me to suffering; Let me be employed for You or laid aside for You, Exalted for You or brought low for You; Let me be...
Not long after lockdown began I sent this scripture to someone, Song of Solomon 2:10-13. But I kept feeling drawn back to it, so spent some time thinking and praying around it. ‘Come away with Me’ – time out, away from the normal rhythms. ‘The winter is past and the flowers...
Since the November 2020 lockdown, 122 Church Leaders from England and Wales, of which Pastor Charles Fleming is one, have been pursuing a judicial review along with Christian Concern regarding the criminalising of churches gathering for worship and prayer. Please pray that permission is granted for the case to be expedited...
Deborah was born and grew up in the Penzance area, she was part of Shekinah Christian Church until going to Bath University in 2009. Here she is interviewed by Matt Caddick regarding her own experiences of racism in the light of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer...
I wrote a book not long ago entitled Is Your Heart Prepared for the Midnight Cry?(Charisma). I take the view that the next thing to happen on God’s calendar is not the Second Coming but rather the awakening of the church before the Second Coming. Matthew 25:6 says, “At midnight...
I’ve been thinking about all the rainbows now on display. I love seeing them as the symbol of hope and appreciation that they have become. But I also wondered how many remember where this sign comes from; that it is a God-given promise to humanity. This image comes out...
Sadly my Dad passed away on 6th April after many years of being in a care home. Whilst this did not come as too much of a shock, the timing and its consequences caused my 80 year old Mum more angst than perhaps under normal circumstances. My brother, Grant, has been doing a great job...
When I was on my daily walk I noticed that some of my garden plants had reseeded themselves. They were thriving, and I felt the Lord say that a harvest of seeds sown in the past were about to add to the Kingdom. Further on in the walk I saw...
As I was reading the posts on the church’s Facebook page on 25th April, I was reminded of something I had written in my journal 9 days earlier: ‘The rhythm of life has completely changed. There is a whole new rhythm. Realign to the new rhythm’. On reading this, I...
The Lockdown coincided with my planned decision to work only four days a week from the beginning of April. I am still going to work. I manage supported housing provision for 40 teenagers and young adults living semi-independently in their own flats. This always provides plenty of inspiration for prayer...
The other evening while half watching TV and thinking about our next life group and wondering what we would talk about, the words ‘wailing’ and ‘worship’ came to me so I wrote them down. Then the word ‘joy’ so I wrote this down too. As I did this I was...
In February I remember saying to Charles I think I might have a prophetic word for 2020. I can see now how relevant it may be. It was very simply that this year we would need to wait well, remain. John 15 v4 ‘Abide in Me and I in you....
Last week we focussed on declaring ‘the Goshen prayer’, the following testimony came as a direct result of that: I have 2 separate jobs as a health care worker and one is a private job and not deemed vital at this point and although the government is paying for 80% of...