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Ascension View 2022
John Caldwell lives in Perthshire with his wife, Laura, and two sons, Ethan and Caleb. John serves as both founding pastor of Kairos Church, Stirling with the Apostolic Church UK, and as prison chaplain at HMP Shotts. A prolific author, John’s books include Christ, the Cross and the Concrete Jungle (personal testimony), Vision from the…
Introduction The most wonderful moment in the Prodigal Son’s life comes at his lowest point. Jesus describes that moment in a simple yet profound way … ‘… He came to his senses.’ By running from God, we also flee our senses … but then, when we return to our senses, we ‘come home’ to a…
Steven Anderson has been involved in a wide range of Christian leadership roles for 35 years: pastoral and teaching; healing and prophetic; from local to national and international. Presently based at Glasgow City Church, Steven and Helen share the heartbeat of his latest book, Equipped: Activated and Released, and their Kingdom Mentoring course, to develop…
Mark Twain said, “History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme.” Like the seasons, there are patterns and cycles in history that don’t require us to be particularly spiritual or prophetic, simply observant. As the world emerges from a season of global lockdown and upheaval, many church leaders are revisiting vision. Listening for the voice…
by Alistair Matheson During Covid Lockdown v1, I wrote a 40-Day devotional, Treasures of Darkness. A year and a half later, having been struck by the virus myself and consigned to a 10-day quarantine, I felt moved to add this postscript. “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of…
by Alistair Matheson Who was Sosthenes? I’m guessing not every Bible-lover will remember that this little known figure was actually Paul’s co-producer of the First Epistle to the Corinthians … “Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, to the church of God that is…
by David Mitchell “Hello?” “Hi, is that David? It’s ___. I’m sitting here on my porch with a gun, and I’m going to shoot myself.” That was a difficult conversation. I’ve delivered news to a parent late at night of their adult child’s suicide. I’ve taken a funeral for a man who was once baptised…
by Tim Jack The years 2020 and 2021 will be remembered in history as a season of ‘the great disruption’. Lives lived in a ‘normal’ world had to adjust to life in lockdown, a life of upward pressure on fear, hospitalisation and death lived contemporaneously with downward pressures on personal freedoms, certainty and, oftentimes, incomes.…
by Andy Parker New growth is a principle we see everywhere in nature. A tree will only ever grow so large and for so long, before its size and age will begin to become detrimental to its existence. A forest will eventually die and decay if it doesn’t experience constant propagation and new growth. When Jesus…
by Phelim Doherty Acts 11 tells us that when Barnabas arrived in Antioch and saw ‘what the grace of God had done’, he encouraged them to abide in (remain in) that grace.[1] He was so convinced of the importance of them being deeply rooted in what Christ had done, that he left Antioch to go…
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