Chris Finn

At the end of Matthew 13 Jesus had just been rejected in his hometown and to cap it all by members of his own family! His own mother had seen him turn water into wine. He had astonished those in the temple with the wisdom of his teaching. He had healed the sick and performed many miracles, yet here he was among his own people announcing to them that ‘a prophet is honoured everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.’ ‘Is not this the carpenter’s Son? Is not His mother...

There is a culture in our churches and homes of brushing things under the carpet! It’s called ‘keeping the peace.’ If we don’t deal with it in church, then how can we expect people to deal with it in the home! The bible says, ‘blessed are the peace makers.’ There’s a huge difference between keeping peace and making peace. God calls us to be peacemakers. He wants us to bring peace to confrontation and conflict. We should speak truth into difficult situations, just as Jesus did. Conflict is an...

Recently I was asked to go and pray with a lady who needed healing in her back. The pain was becoming unbearable, and the medication wasn’t as effective as hoped for. As I was driving over to her house, I was asking the Holy Spirit to give me insight and wisdom, asking him to lead me in how to pray for her back. The bible tells us in Mark 16 to lay hands on the sick and they will recover. “These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they...