Guest Contributors

On the Move

Posted Thu, 07/01/2010 - 19:27 by Peniel Church

Glorious weather- low 70s sun, is this really England? We saw a huge response in people coming through our BBQ site for free Burgers and sausages. Simple menu but great worship music lifting up the Lord right on the spot of the old chapel ruins built almost 800 years ago.

Spiritually Alive & Working in Unity

Posted Thu, 03/25/2010 - 10:58 by Peniel Church

The Lord clearly touched lives and we saw spiritually healed & alive clergy return home. 

Nehemiah's Sword & Trowel

Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:46 by Peniel Church

Intro remarks...

In the hustle of life you sometimes forget some of your basic motivations and get caught up in rocks, thorns and thistles. But when push comes to shove it is your basic motivations that come to the fore. These are the enduring factors that no span of time or trial can change. When they are the foundation they are always there.

300,000000 Need to Hear

Posted Tue, 01/26/2010 - 14:02 by Peniel Church

The Bible is an amazing book; in it, God tells the story of how He has reached out to humanity down through the ages. We read about how He created us, and about how He became human and walked on the earth, dying and rising again to reconcile us to Himself and we read about how He will wind up all of history when Jesus returns in triumph. But the Bible is more than a story, it is also God’s way of speaking to us and drawing us to Himself. It is a story which speaks about the whole of humanity and which speaks to every man, woman and child on the planet.

Christ in You

Posted Mon, 01/18/2010 - 18:12 by Peniel Church

Dr Kent Hodge has released an amazing new book, 'Christ in You,' a timely work for reading, review and reference.

Betty with Bullets

Posted Sun, 01/17/2010 - 01:58 by Peniel Church

A Portrait of Southern Sudan

I met Betty Jokodi, aged about 7 or 8, in the Lokurabang camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) on the outskirts of the Southern Sudanese town of Lainya, in May 2009. Her grandfather pastors a church in the midst of the camp and I had been invited to join their Sunday service. I sat with the children on pews made from logs propped up on branches under the shade of small mango trees. I was visiting the area with a team of volunteers on a short-term project with Flame International, a UK based charity that works in many war-torn countries.

From the Jaws of Hell

Posted Fri, 01/15/2010 - 11:09 by Peniel Church

It was hard to imagine what James had been through since being snatched from his family by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). How could a 12 year old boy recover from the trauma of being forced to execute two other children for trying to escape? How do you live with the memory of beating their heads with clubs while they lay facedown with hands tied behind their backs? How could he then have found the courage to try to escape, knowing the cost of being caught? But escape he did and although I heard his words I found it difficult to conceive the terrifying reality of it.