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…

What changed in a few short years? What happened to our moral compass? The very same parliamentarians who vehemently opposed similar legislation were now the loudest proponents. Our national moral compass that protected the sanctity of all human life took a massive hit…

The difference between life and death doesn’t get much narrower than 6mm. The difference between succumbing to temptation and overcoming it is often a very narrow width, too. The difference between success and failure can be the tiniest margins. The difference between…

Mission will cost each of us something at some point. That cost will vary from person to person depending on the neighbour we come across – and the neighbour, as Jesus illustrates in the parable, is the person right in front of you. But Jesus is also saying here…

Free speech is one of the pillars of a free society. It is so sacrosanct that wars have been fought to protect and preserve it. It is a key part of a democratic society where journalists and others can keep those in all kinds of authority, or leadership, to account. A free press has been described as…

God has written a book about you. His purpose and plan for each person has been mapped out in advance. It is so important to know your book! Most do not. They wing it through life or take a wild stab at it. But, at the great white throne, the judgement seat of God, these books are opened and read out. Everyone will be…

Life is fleeting! How quickly your kids grow up and get married. How quickly the years fly by the older we get. Seasons come and go with alarming swiftness. I am currently ploughing through Paul Ham’s monolithic book on the Vietnam war. I’m up to chapter 37. I grew up during the Vietnam War era and, in page after page of the narration many images long forgotten came back to vivid memory….

One of the critical moorings from which we have broken free, is shame. But, not in the sense of the shame produced by our sense of broken identity because of sin. No, what I speak of is the sense of shamelessness – at the other end of the spectrum - that is so openly and blatantly displayed these days. We have seen so much of this of late – in very public arenas. Take, for instance,…

Many believers have constructed a God to worship that has saved them from their sins but will eventually welcome everyone into heaven anyway – regardless of how they live. Only a fool could happily accept that logic…

My understanding, as I read scripture, holds that there are more than two official sacraments – there has to be! I believe that there are several other significant ways in which heaven intersects with earth…

There are sometimes very dark valleys where the spiritual attacks we experience are most evil, very intimidating, oppressive, suffocating and very real and terrifying; and it may take us some time to work out that we are, in fact, under spiritual attack. Of course, although the…

In February, Time Magazine asked, in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks on Israel last October, the frustrated question, “Why won't anti-Semitism die, or at least die down?” They had no answer, either.

But the question must be answered…

The apostle Paul is in jail. In a few weeks he will be executed for preaching the Gospel about Jesus Christ. His ministry has been a long and hard and, often dangerous, road. The letter to the Philippian church is one of two last letters he will write. The final one was…

But here’s the great insight I gained in all of this. When Daniel was lifted out of that lion’s den “no wound was found on him”. There was not a scratch. This is a crucial spiritual insight. God shows up for us in the worst places, in times of unfairness, betrayal, heartbreak, testing and sorrow …

The first soft victims were tossed aside, unable to draw their first breath let alone utter their first word of protest; and the children so often discarded by parents who didn’t want to stay married, were traumatised and many are now so angry. Now, more and more, women are the next soft victims, and we must stand up against it, not just in street march protests, with grandstanding politicians, but with…

One of the strategies that paves the way towards ultimate inversion is to create fear and then demonstrate that ‘we’re doing this for the safety of everyone’, and things like ‘we are following the (unelected) medical, scientific or (conflicting) expert advice’. This is often a fake moral ground construct,…