by Anne Hamilton | Apr 11, 2023 | Covenant, guardians, Thresholds
CS Lewis famously said, ‘There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.’ On the one hand, there are those...
by Anne Hamilton | Mar 27, 2023 | guardians, Thresholds, wasting
Some people, on the verge of retirement, look at the nest-egg they’ve put aside and realise they are going to have to economise in previously unthinkable ways. So they withdraw their money and stake it all on a sure-fire, high-yield, gilt-edged scheme that promises a...
by Anne Hamilton | Mar 23, 2023 | guardians, Thresholds, wasting
When I was young, I loved the Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery. Whenever my mother would catch me staring into space and asked me what I was doing, I’d quote from one of the books, ‘Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.’ That wasn’t it...
by Anne Hamilton | Dec 6, 2022 | abuse, guardians, Kronos
The five prerequisites for becoming a vessel to house the Living Water that dislodges the stake of trauma and dissolves the pain of the past are: repent of false refuges and renounce their associated idols ask for Jesus’ prayer help and mediation as you approach the...
by Anne Hamilton | Oct 14, 2022 | abuse, guardians, Thresholds
In his book, Rising to the Call, Os Guinness describes the seductive look-alike to a champion devoted to God. He calls it the ideal of Faustian striving. All through world literature until recently, there were powerful warnings that ‘those who transgress boundaries in...
by Anne Hamilton | Oct 10, 2022 | abuse, guardians
In the last session, we looked briefly at the misappropriation of authority by overstepping a boundary and, instead of upholding the word and the will of God, we exercise our own word and will. However, that’s not the only way Belial can influence us with regard to...
