The Broadcast

The highly respected American author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last week.  Here is a fascinating extract from a speech that he gave.  I love the bit on worship, so so close, yet so so very far away.
enjoy:
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods [...]

 Spurgeon recounting his conversion

There was a day, as I took my walks abroad, when I came hard by a spot for ever engraven upon my memory, for there I saw this Friend, my best, my only Friend, murdered. I stooped down in sad affright, and looked at Him. I saw that His hands had been [...]

I guess like me many of you have been watching the events at Lakeland florida unfold over the past few months.  I have met many who have experienced what has been labeled as the ‘healing revival’.  The power of God has clearly been operating in amazing ways.  Yes the doctrine looked a bit weird, and the methods [...]

 Here are my sermon notes from a 3 part series I did on suffering.  This is the first sermon titled Why does a God of love allow suffering?  The following is directly lifted from my notes and may not read very well.
The audio for this sermon is not great quality but is available at http://media.wellspringfamilychurch.org.s3.amazonaws.com/d524afba-af25-466c-a589-44395b7e08f2.mp3
Why does a God [...]

When I was a student in London I would travel regularly from my home town by train into Paddington station. The train would often stop just outside the station where I would always be drawn to a piece of graffiti written on a nearby wall.  The graffiti read ‘far away is always close at hand in images of elsewhere’.  Quite philosophical for a [...]

I love the writtings of the Puritans - Here is a prayer taken from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, edited by Arthur Bennett
 
 The Valley of Vision
 
Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but [...]

The task was simple; buy a Goldfish for my 3 year old daughter.
So we made the short walk down to our local pet fish shop which shall remain nameless.  All I wanted was a Goldfish, something simple, the kind of pet that you are happy to buy for a 3 year old girl.  
We entered [...]