by Anne Hamilton | May 12, 2023 | Prayer, Thresholds, wasting
Heavenly Father, may You be honoured in all we say and pray. May You be glorified in all we do, may the holiness of Your name be magnified, may the favour and grace You lavish on us be used rightly by us and those who are blessed through us. Lord, I know that what...
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 | Apr 3, 2023 | Covenant, Passover, Thresholds
This podcast is by special request for someone who has had Easter ‘spoiled’ by adverse teaching. In his book Reflections on the Psalms, CS Lewis wrote of a small and devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself a poem he’d composed for Easter morning....
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 | Jan 13, 2023 | binding, Thresholds, wasting
I want to sound a note of caution about the widespread practice of binding spirits. Some people are deeply attached to it—simply for pragmatic reasons, that is, they consider it to be good because it works. Yet they’ve never inquired of the Lord whether He wants them...