Lighthouse: Recent Episodes
Jon Paul Witt
Whether it's a reflection from The Bible, from my work as a pioneer or just my everyday life, I present reflections on how to be a Christian in the real world and what Jesus means to all of us.
I'm Jon, the leader of Dignity and I live between Africa and the UK. I believe passionately in Jesus and his love for people. All of us, no matter our standing in life can be involved, useful and work for a better world and life for everyone.
The key is Jesus.
Our understanding, knowledge and more importantly our relationship with Him.
As part of my latest prayer session here I share an encouragement about the spread of Hawthorn trees here in the Machno Valley in North Wales and how that can teach us a lot about what God is doing in our world.
After saying that everything 'had been a little ordinary' in my last prayer update, the last 4 weeks has been anything but!
A time to reflect on the new life that Jesus brings to us through his death and resurrection. It is this life that enables the "ordianry and every day to take on eternal life and to be something rather extraordinary"
Like Michaelangelo and the view of the city above, we'd rather make the mistake of aiming too high, rather than aiming too low! At the same time we need the sense to not be like the mythical Icarus who flew too close to the sun!
A few years ago many people supported the "What would Jesus do?" (WWJD) campaign. They wore wristbands and tried to ask the question in every situation that they came across. In every situation they asked themselves, "What is important for us?"
As we face all of the new difficulty and uncertainty of 2021, what is important for us? Well to answer that question, I decided to have a look at what was important to Jesus and work from there.
As we are all aware there are some complicated events in the world right now. This podcast was recorded before Jude and I were attacked by a bush pig last weekend. It looks forward to some of what we hope to do, and also shares some quick prayer points after our unfortunate incident. There’s even a prayer of blessing for you at this difficult time.
What a year 2020 has been! All of us need new hope, stregth and purpose for the year ahead. This is a new year message that I spoke at South Church in Mkushi, Zambia. In our search for hope, strength and purpose I encourage us to put our glasses on, move closer and recieve our orders. This talk contains really practical thoughts and insights as we wrestle with everything that 2020 hs thrown at us!
Breakout…. a short two session exploration of how we can push the boundaries of our church community. As part of our thinking, we investigate what it means to be ‘built upon the rock’ and declare Jesus in Authenticity, Community, Tradition, Proximity and Motivation. We examine how ‘Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds and Teachers’ can help us…Read more Breakout – Session 2
Breakout…. a short two session exploration of how we can push the boundaries of our church community. As part of our thinking, we investigate what it means to be ‘built upon the rock’ and declare Jesus in Authenticity, Community, Tradition, Proximity and Motivation. We examine how ‘Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds and Teachers’ can help us…Read more Breakout
The Spirit Gives Life is a session built upon our new discipleship material, “Foundations for Life”. I’m currently writing a few chapters for my organisation Dignity. We have multiple authors from multiple backgrounds all callaborating to make a fantastic resource. As you can tell from the recording it’s really informal and the session would normally…Read more The Spirit Gives Life