To the Cross

“Alan was a man who was driven by love and compassion and he would not want any of us to hold on to feelings of hate and unforgiveness. So in honour of Alan and in honour of the God we both love, my pr ayer is that this story doesn't end today. My prayer is that Jonathan Bowling and Ashley Foster will come to understand and experience the love and kindness of the God who made them in His own image and that God's great mercy will inspire both of them to true repentance.” Maureen Greaves is an amazing beautiful Holy Spirit filled gracious lady and a fearless Evangelist. Alan indeed a most generous and loving man - now with the Lord.   Maureen Greaves is here following the example of Jesus, Stephen, Corrie ten boom, Nelson Mandella, Kim Phuc, Gordon Wilson and many more Spirit filled Christians, as she forgives her husband's murderers and prays for their salvation.

  Love is my first and foremost motive for telling the Gospel. I deeply love Jesus and deeply love my neighbours.   I live in a community of hurting people and I hurt for those who are hurting. I hurt for those who seek some kind of hope through yet another inappropriate relationship, I hurt for those who have had yet another child removed from their care, (I hurt for that child!) I hurt for those who get into huge debt because they feel that possessions will bring some sense of satisfaction to their lives, I hurt for those suffering from addiction of alcohol and other drugs. I hurt when children are suffering from family breakdown, when they are growing up without any sense of hope, when they are made out (often by people who should know better!) to be nobodies, when they are labelled as 'compulsive liars' or 'compulsive thieves.'     I am not talking about statistics here, I am talking about individuals whom I know and lov...

  My personal view on this is that the Government is making an horrendous mess!  In a strange way the Government's intervention on marriage feels to me  like a matter  from George Orwell's 1984 - only with an illiberal liberal agenda . I personally feel sure that th e 'Thought Police' will be hunting out those who disapprove to all this all too soon, dismissing school teachers and Christian Registrars who conscientiously can not in any way promote same sex marriage. I am not sure that even the Church will be safe from civil law when European courts are asked to intervene! 

     For 18 months we have been praying for a hub for our outreach on the local estate.  During a prayer session in December last year, we believed that God was saying that we would have breakthrough in the Hebrew month of Nisan.  But when is Nisan? A book that we later found revealed Nisan to be between March and April.   Interestingly it also stated that Nisan is the month of the Flax harvest. From December onwards we carried pushing doors - one with some force - but they remained firmly shut. In April we pushed a door that flew open and so we now have a (trial) Community Café and can share all what Jesus has done for us over cake and coffee.   But back to the point of the Flax harvest. The Road on which our café is situated is no other than: Flaxley Road!   We are now praying that God will make our new ground fertile for a Flax harvest: a place where people of Flaxley Road will turn ...

'I was determined to turn aside from hatred, vengeance, unforgiveness and retaliation towards those who had killed him'   Maureen Greaves is a lovely lady and a passionate evangelist working in Sheffield. Her murdered husband Alan a most beautiful and generous man.   I praise God for her strength to remain true to Christ in the most horendous of circumstances. If ever there was evidence of the Holy Spirit at work it is in the way Maureen has reacted towards her husbands death.Maureen's gracious words are nothing short of a miracle.