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Just as a top sportsperson controls their mental, emotional and personal faculties to stay ‘in the zone’, so too Christians can take responsibility for the heavenly zones God has made available to us. This post discusses how we enter those heavenly zones and go through the open doors God has created for us.
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This is the day that … Ramon Lull was stoned to death by a Muslim mob in North Africa, in1316.
He was born on the isle of Majorca, off the coast of Spain, in 1232. In teenage days he served as a courtier to the king of Aragon, and was educated as a knight. After a [...]

Do you spend time pruning things in your life, only to have them grow back again? Are you struggling to deal with issues in yourself and our culture, without going to the roots? It’s time to rethink your strategy.
I have a laurel bush growing on my fence line. The neighbour is often frustrated by its [...]

This is the day that … Samuel Crowther was consecrated as a bishop, in 1864.
Adijah was 13 years of age, a black boy living inland near the west coast of Africa, when the slave traders attacked. He never saw his father again, and it would be 25 years before he was to again meet his [...]

As I write this my wife is sitting at the dining table with my daughter working over some math questions. Not only are mother and daughter working together on the project, but mother is learning from her daughter – Hmmmmm.
It has been our delight to have each of our seven children taught at home, [...]

This is the day that … Allen Francis Gardiner was born in 1794, in Berkshire, England.
After a reckless decade, from age 15 to 25, during which he forsook the Christian heritage his parents had given him, and during which time he had become an English naval officer, Gardiner was confronted by the claims of Christ, [...]

Just a few days ago the thought crossed my mind that older women probably don’t know how to teach young women anymore. The Bible advocates that older women teach the younger women how to love their husbands, among other things.

“That they (older women) may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, [...]

This is the day that … the ‘Macaroni Parson’ died, in 1777.
Dr William Dodd was a Church of England clergyman … “one of the most popular and successful preachers of the 18th century” says his biographer.
The nickname ‘Macaroni Parson’ was given to him because of his dandyish dress – the kind of attire worn on [...]

How would you like to be able to choose to be in God’s presence? How would you like to be able to step into heaven, even while you are buried in some heavy-duty workload, mess or upheaval? You can be “in the zone” of your own choosing, and that ‘zone’ can be the very throne-room [...]

This is the day that … Philip Doddridge was born in 1702, the 20th child of a London tradesman.
“So feeble the spark of life that he was first laid aside as dead” – until a servant girl noticed a movement … and the child lived. Except for sister Elizabeth, all the other children did die [...]