A recent preparation for a talk at our Wild At Heart taster evening led me on a verse chase through the Thompson Chain reference Bible for students and under the heading: 'Forsaking God' led me to Hosea 2:5.

I started the scriptural journey reflecting on how we are made...

15 or so years ago someone gave me a word for my life - at a time during a devotional moment where we, as counselling students, were being blessed to be released into whatever was next for us. I was sitting working hard at thinking holy, devoted thoughts.

Outside it was...

You need two things to fight mind control:
1. Awareness that it might be happening
2. A source of truth

When I agree with something then it means that I believe it to be right.  And therefore anything built on that is justified. 

Lets take an example:
You have an ar...

If you're anything like me, your mind is full of stuff most of the time.  In the last couple of years it feels like I have woken up to the battle that is going on for control of my mind.

The devil is bombarding me with thoughts, and, worse still, feelings and emotions!...

A girl is abducted and then found in a hotel room chained to a bed.  She doesn't want to be rescued.  When she is finally reunited with her parents she pulls out a gun and kills them both.  She claims that she was made to do it by a man that took over her mind but no-o...

Digging your own well and then filling it with a whole lot of stuff that looks like water-for-the-soul (but was never designed to be) feels good at the time but it never satisfies and it runs dry quickly.