“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant […]
Author: PeteMcM
Affirmations
“So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Something we are called to do is to encourage and build up our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. And something I know I’m not very good at always doing is building up and encouraging my fellow brothers and […]
Unfinished Business
“There’s a river of love that’s here, There’s a river of grace that’s here You’re invited to come and swim within Death to the past it’s gone Here’s to a new beginning Our God’s not finished yet with us.” River – Bluetree God is not finished yet with us. Who we are now is not […]
Hawking v God: Join the discussion
You may have seen Stephen Hawking’s comments earlier this week that he believes that there was no need for God to have played any part in the creation of the universe. According to him, the laws of physics were enough. (Which begs the question, where did those laws come from?) So maybe he isn’t the […]
Not our plans
I have a list of ideas for articles that I want to write up for All4God. (Tip – keep a note of ideas you get as you get them so that you will remember them when you have time to do something about them. I have lost many potential devotions because I didn’t jot down […]
What is unseen
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” 2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV This is a verse that challenges us about where our focus is. It is easy to get caught up in what is right in front of […]
Godincidence
Over the summer I worked at a Christian camp in Albany, New York. And one of the weeks I helped run an activity called Chill time with God, where campers could sign up to come for an hour each morning to talk more about God, learn more about the Bible, sing some praise to our […]
Don't want to miss a thing
When I post stuff up on All4God it is my hope and prayer that God uses it to speak to you, to help you grow, to bring you closer to him, to teach you something new. And it is always great to hear back from people when that happens. But something I am very aware […]
What a waste it would've been
On their latest album ‘Brand New Eyes’ Paramore have a song Looking Up which has a pretty interesting set of lyrics towards the end. Singer Hayley sings these lines: “God knows the world doesn’t need another band, […]
Moving to where your feet can't touch the ground
In my last devotion I wrote about the need for us to move towards spiritual maturity (read it here first if you haven’t already), and today I’m going to continue where I left off. It is time to start going deeper. “So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. […]