In Galatians 5 we read what the spiritual life of a follower of Jesus will look like. In Gal 5:16 there is the command to “walk/live by the Spirit”. This is not something that we do from time to time – we are commanded to keep on doing it… in fact it is to be our ongoing experience as God’s people. The…

In Romans 8 there is an extensive piece of scripture that deals with the person and work of the Holy Spirit. There is lots of great stuff in this chapter but I wanted us to look at Romans 8 to discover 6 characteristics of someone who is led by the Spirit. The spiritual life is intimately related to the saving work of…

In the New Testament being spiritual is all about being indwelt by the Spirit of God. So from a biblical point of view only those people who have the Spirit can really be described as spiritual. Thus the outworking of the Spirit in the lives of followers of Jesus is what could be referred to as ‘biblical spirituality’. And yet are all…

So much of today’s “Christian spirituality” is mystical in essence and whilst we do not have the time to delve into this in detail the Christian mystic’s ‘search for the spiritual’ often contradicts what the Bible says true spirituality is all about. Let me give you just one example. Brother Lawrence the author of “The practice of the presence of God” says…

Maybe in your yearning for the spiritual you are driven by the thirst for experience. Sadly many forms of spirituality that ‘thirst for experience’ hold any experience as ultimate. Thus experience because authoritative in their quest for spirituality. Of course there is nothing wrong with thirsting for experience in your relationship with God. The phenomenal growth of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements…

In your yearning for the spiritual, are you yearning for increased relationships or greater connectedness?  Now I am aware of the many varieties of ‘connectedness’ that are on offer from our ‘spiritually thirsty’ world but the one true spirituality that actually delivers for all eternity is greater connectedness with the God of the Bible. Here are a few reasons: The God of…

As we spend some time exploring what it means to be spiritual it is worth our while to ask ourselves the question, what is spirituality and where is it found? There are plenty of opinions on this but I want to run one past you. “Spirituality in its broad contemporary usage expresses the longing of the human spirit for an experience of…

It seems that almost every month in Adelaide I could attend some sort of show that is promoting human spirituality. It could be something big like the Body, Mind and Spirit show that is held each year or it could be the smaller expo’s that are held in the suburbs. The search for the spiritual is huge in our western world. Not…