Author: Cheryl Siemens

George Fox, page 132, as written in his journal In his journal, Fox says: “The Lord had said unto me, ‘If but one man or woman were raised up by His power, to stand and live in the same spirit that the apostles and prophets were in, who gave forth the Scriptures, that man or…

Page 134 “We all die,” said this woman whose prudence Scripture praised in the Second Book of Kings, “and we are constantly going to the grave, like waters that are lost without return.” Indeed, we all resemble running waters. However superbly distinguished men may be, they all have the same origin; and this origin is…

In the quiet, where no one else is, where distractions and the waiting list are absent I am drawn further into Jesus life. I want his life. I want his life to be my life. To die to mine with Christ so I can fully experience the life of the Trinity. If then you have…

Reflecting on the experiences of our lives begs the question, “why”? Childhood scenes rushed back at me out of the night, strangely close and urgent. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use…

Jesus communicated through stories of the daily events of the people surrounding him. He plucked people from the crowd as characters, his mother, his brothers, the land-owner, the shepherd and children. He talked about seeds, wine, trees and sheep. It was stuff that the people around him understood. He spoke their language. He had a…

Jesus came to us in part, through the back-door of the imagination. His parables gently let us down into the reality of our lives and what we do with them. Avoid focusing on who is who in the parables, we do love to sort, instead let these stories reveal how we manage what we have…