Rupert’s Blog

Dear readers … it has been a long time. I have done some “cold turkey” on my blogging addiction (or has life just been too busy?), but I have even been encouraged by a few people to venture back into the world of blogs. So I thought I would write the occasional blog post and see how it goes.

I will try to write something more on this over the coming weeks, but here is a talk that I gave at our church before Christmas on times when God seems absent in our lives. God is never absent, but there are times when it seems as though He has left us; times when when we seem to praying to the ceiling; when all we hear is silence; when we have no sense of God’s presence. We are in a barren place, which can become a place of incredible fruitfulness, if we know how to walk with God in these seasons. Often we think we have done something wrong or we try to go back and do what we were doing in times of blessings. We can be tempted to give up. But if we can discern the “withness” of God, that God is with us in a unique, but different, way, we can learn to love the desert. And find it a place of transformation.

Intrigued? Well listen, and let me know what you think.

Living in the desert - Talk 4.mp3