My study of the prayer life of Jesus has been going on for a couple of decades. In understanding his secret life of prayer, I hope to follow in some small measure in His footsteps and discover the intimacy that He had with His Father. What better place...
The Story of John the Baptist's Birth
I have just completed 2 talks on Internet Radio on Luke’s Birth narratives which deal with 2 conceptions and two birth! - Jesus and John. It is quite unusual though to focus attention on John's birth because our attention is normally fixed on the bir...
Ezra the high-priest, Nehemiah the king’s governor and the community of Jews
A few weeks ago, I finished several radio talks on the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
I always found that I was confused over the several returns of the Jews to Palestine. I am happy to tell you that I have got it all sorted!
There are three returns – u...
Job: a man of suffering, judged by his friends and justified by God
I have just completed 6 talks on New Life Radio on the book of Job which means that I got to read and study Job for at least 6 weeks and the impact of the book means that I see it with newly opened eyes. I’ll let you into a secret – I have found Job a ...
Seeing God Who Is Invisible
This article is the outcome of preaching in several churches and writing what the Lord has been showing me on the theology of God’s invisibility!
I was captivated by the actuality of God’s eternal invisibility (invisibility is a characteristic or attr...
A Tribute to Najua Diba: Brazilian Missionary to Albania
Erise and Nila, in the church in Kamza, Albania
14/02/1947 – 31/10/2020 The Lord put Albania on the heart of Najua in the year 1979. She didn`t know anything about Albania, its religion, culture or politics, - nothing at all, but to her it was clear a...
Derrick's Christmas Letter 2020
Dear friends,
Greetings and love to you in Jesus’ name! I wrote my last letter to you in October, never expecting that we would be in lock-down over Christmas, it seems to have become our way of life!
Over the past month I have been talking on New L...
Starting my Internet Radio career
I have travelled to many countries of the world over the last 17 years teaching Bible Students and speaking in many churches.
This season of continuing lockdown in my own home has led me to reconsider what I'm going to do with my time.
I have just f...
Lessons from the Lockdown
Isolation is by no means rare in the lives of God’s servants: it is God’s means of dealing with them, preparing them for ministry, transforming their lives and bringing them into deeper intimacy with himself.
In this most unusual time when so many p...
A few lines about the church !!!
Why make accessible a document about "church" when we are not able to meet together as a church?
I am passionate about the church of Jesus Christ - I was dedicated in the Salvation Army but grew up in a Brethren Assembly, I went to an inter-denominati...
Derrick Harrison
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