As someone recently said, “God graciously put Himself into a form that we humans could understand and sense”, and draw near to. “Complexity took on the form of simplicity that night without losing any of the complexity” And that is so powerful, so all-pervading in the spiritual realm, that men and women in all their Christmas rushing about stop at nativity scenes today and gaze in reverent wonder.

This question - “How did things come to this?”- has been asked by three journalists in the last 48 hours (it is now early Sunday afternoon as I write this) in the wake of the…

Imagine that you come to the end of your discipleship journey only to hear Jesus say the equivalent of, “For the want of nail”?

Many Christians are quick to attribute their difficult situation to spiritual attack when this is just not true (and sometimes we are undergoing a test of our faith). In doing so, we avoid taking responsibility for our behaviours and choices. Satan cannot willy-nilly assault a Christian and overpower them. But Christians often…

The thinking of this world - its values and its rationales, values and reasonings - are all a particular kind of spiritual darkness that threatens to overwhelm us – and keep us in the dark, stumbling along our way, unable to confidently find our way forward. Spiritual darkness is extremely powerful, and…

The writer of Hebrews describes Jesus’ priesthood as eternal in scope. He uses the ancient figure of Melchizedek as a “type”- that is, a person in the Old Testament who helps us understand a New Testament principle or truth. Melchizedek’s priestly ministry…

Can there ever be a “disproportionate response” to evil? The God of the Bible doesn’t think so; hence, the cross of Christ. And that has been Israel’s dilemma as it has tried to navigate its own survival and the court of public opinion. In the end, Israel has chosen…

I am convinced that the most serious factor driving of our national social decline is the erosion of morals and values. Once upon a time, not so long ago, this decline was somewhat hidden. There was a certain shame attached to it. So much was kept in the closet because we knew it was wrong. Not now. The manifestation…

We live in a world where the perpetually outraged are constantly looking for soft targets to exact some kind of revenge, satisfy some imagined right to moral reparations, or some “rebalancing” in our culture. They’re aggressively looking for ways to silence the voice of the Bible, to marginalise and even silence…

Life is often unfair, or harsh, but this never means God has abandoned us. He is with us, and working in ways we often cannot see or begin to understand. The faithful believer needs to understand this and trust that God is working behind the scenes. In the end, He is the One who…

I sat with a friend a few years ago through that long night as he lay dying – he had just hours left. He shared with me the deepest things in his heart – things he had never shared with anyone, not even his wife. Not ever. And, just as the new day was dawning...

One of the key signs of the end times that has become very obvious around the world in the last ten years, or so, is the rise of false prophets and false teachers. Jesus warned of false prophets three times in Matthew’s gospel, and it is happening right now on a global scale – far more than...

We so often limit God to what we can only see or think is possible in the natural realm. What we see with our physical eyes and then rationalise with our minds, is the biggest limiting factor to the Christian’s supernatural living. We are almost searching....

Perhaps, one of the skills we need to quickly develop if we are to gather in the harvest around us is to learn to open our eyes and see what is there – what God is revealing. Maybe it has always been there, but as God reveals it to us, the moment is clearly ripe. This opening of our eyes is a...

The virus of progressivism has even infiltrated many churches today. In an effort to remain “relevant” to its surrounding culture, the church has bowed its knee to progressivism and now acceptance is a critical goal that, when finally attained, has no gospel influence, at all. This new acceptance means...

It is not an easy thing to do, I know, but it is the first step along the pathway to enduring peace. And, as we travel this path, by faith, God initiates us into the mysteries of His shalom regardless of the surrounding chaos ...

Luke makes many points here. The first is that Jesus sent out ordinary people like us – we don’t even know their names – and He commands them to implement the Great Commission, a command He would later reiterate before His ascension into heaven. He gives them very clear instructions. They’re foolproof. They go without Jesus, without...

If someone puts all their eggs in one basket, they put all their effort or resources into doing one thing, so if that fails, they have no alternatives left. And we live so much of our lives like that- always hedging our bets, spreading risk, not putting all our eggs in one basket. In many ways...

I listened to this comment on Youtube, and my heart sank. Is it just me? I don’t think so. Suddenly, our Christian faith had become a political club with which to belt other non-Christian MPs in some very public victory lap.

The Gospel of the kingdom takes us and calls us to live beyond gender stereotypes – male and female – beyond ethnicities, and beyond social constructs that place artificial values and inequalities upon human beings. That is, beyond the old order of things. In Christ, these all…