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On Planting Secret Seeds for the Kingdom and for the Love of Jesus. And on a Role Model of Christian Leadership

Anita Mathias — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:25:56 +0000

I am fascinated by the Moravians founded by the reformer Jan Huss, remarkable for their 24/7 prayer which led to a worldwide burst of missionary activity, remarkable for sacrificial exploits like selling themselves into slavery to be able to credibly preach the Gospel to slaves. Comenius, a Moravian Bishop (selected by Life magazine as one […]

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Chasing the Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit: In Praise of Retreats

Anita Mathias — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:28:59 +0000

Is God more present in one place than another?Does it make sense to leave the comfort and familiarity of your daily surroundings to seek God in places—retreat centres or pilgrimage spots– “where prayer has been made valid,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase? Where God was rumoured to have shown up in the past, or to […]

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The Mental Habit That’s Worth a Trillion Dollars

Anita Mathias — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 09:17:09 +0000

Grace and Forgiveness I heard Carol Arnott say that her book Grace and Forgiveness is worth a trillion dollars. Hyperbole, of course, but (Jesus, forgive this crassness!!) if I were to monetize it, learning and practising forgiveness would easily be worth well over £100,000, perhaps £500,000 in a lifetime. No, more! Speculative, of course, but that’s […]

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10 Reflections after Listening to Heidi Baker

Anita Mathias — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:50:19 +0000

Heidi Baker is, I believe, the closest to the heart of Jesus of any living Christian. Christianity Today wrote a rapturous cover story on her. I heard her in Birmingham, and here are my notes, reflections and resolutions. 1) “Always, always, always, say YES.” Heidi: “I got so yielded that I didn’t have much more […]

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An Immensely Abundant Universe. Seeds as a Solution to World Hunger

Anita Mathias — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:31:22 +0000

Barbara Kingsolver’s describes her marvellously productive garden in her memoir of a gardening year, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. We spent the July 4th weekend applying rock lime to the beans and eggplants to discourage beetles, and tying up the waist-high tomato vines to four-foot cages and stakes. In February, each of these plants had been a […]

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Anita’s Christmas Letter

Anita Mathias — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:01:12 +0000

Merry Christmas, friends!! And here’s a peek at my year! Feb—Cancer (false) scare, ultrasound, biopsy, and I re-learn the great lesson, “Do not be afraid.” A restful half-term break on Barton by the Sea, by the New Forest . In March: enjoyed a day at Tearfund’s Headquarters, listening to the CEO Matthew Frost, tell us […]

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Loose Change in God’s pocket; a puppet on a string, or? What’s your metaphor for your relationship with God?

Anita Mathias — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:31:04 +0000

I was listening to a Vineyard CD of Songs of Surrender, and reflected on how I have been indirectly blessed by John Wimber, a man I’ve never met. Through Vineyard music; through his wife Carol’s moving biography of him The Way it Was; through the Toronto Blessing, which was launched in a Vineyard church, now called […]

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Rolling with the Pentecostals. And Listening to Heidi Baker

Anita Mathias — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Englishness and Pentecostalism: Can you think of more antithetical things?So watching the English version of Pentecostalism or Charismatic-ness always amuses me. It’s like the watching the English morph into Americans–or Nigerians.I am spending six days at the Pentecostal River Camp in Gloucestershire. * * * I came to RiverCamp with some Brennan Manning and John Eldredge books to […]

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Listening to Isabel Allum in London. Chasing the Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit. Part II

Anita Mathias — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:08:00 +0000

For most of my adult life, I’ve been guided by this thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Why go to drink from other men’s wells, when you can stay home, and be in touch with the internal ocean.”So I avoid listening to speakers on the importance of reading the Bible, of loving your spouse or kids, […]

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“There is Always Enough” Heidi Baker’s Transforming Vision

Anita Mathias — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Heidi Baker Generally, Christ gives people very specific visions and revelations to strengthen them for the next phase of their journeys. However, Heidi Baker’s wonderful vision of Christ has been both applicable and comforting to me in a very different calling–as a businesswoman and writer. Here it is, with some background: Heidi has a complete […]

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