Israel is the apple of God’s eye. That is not a reference to a Cox’s Orange Pippin, but to the gry iris of the eye, which looks like an apple on end with the stalk in the middle and is the most sensitive part of the body. When anything – even a tiny speck of…

The first sentence of a sermon is, of course, crucial: if you don’t strike oil in two minutes, stop boring David Pawson (Ed Greg Haslam)Click to TweetFrom the book “Preach the Word!: The Call and Challenge of Preaching Today” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

It is clear from the extracts of his (Winston Churchill) speeches that he uses very short, sharp words, “never was so much owed by so many to so few” or “I have nothing to offer you but blood, tears, toil and sweat”. now he could have said ” I have nothing to offer you but…

Paul writing to the Philippians, says about his self-righteousness: “I count it but (he used a very crude Greek backstreet word, the Anglo Saxon equivalent of which is) shit.” That is what he thought of his self-righteousness. Like a little boy holding up his potty and saying, “look what I’ve done”. David Pawson (Ed Greg…

In 1921 James Bartlett was lost overboard from a whaler near the Falkland Islands. The next day the ship’s crew caught a whale, hauled it up on deck and were cutting it up with big knives when they saw something moving in the whale’s stomach. Quickly cutting the stomach open they found James Bartlett, deeply…

8 nature miracles of Jonah: The storm; the casting of lots; the whale swallowing Jonah’s body; thewhale vomiting Jonah’s body; the vine that sprang up overnight; the worm that killed it by eating its roots; the hot scorching desert wind David Pawson (Ed Greg Haslam)Click to TweetFrom the book “Preach the Word!: The Call and…