In this current season, I and the leadership team are seeking to mobilise our church into a strong and effective disciple-making community where the redemptive power of God completely transforms lives so that they move with great authority and power in the mission of Jesus – who purchased us, ransomed us, with His blood.

God, by His Spirit sustains that biological life. But on Easter Day it is not biological proof of life, that so stunned Christ’s followers. No, this was something else. Jesus was different. This was more than some biological life force – this was resurrection life, and it had never entered the world before Jesus.

Easter is here once more. Take the slow pilgrimage with Jesus from the upper room to Skull Hill. So much happened in less than 24 hours. It changed everything. It still does. Marvel at the enormity of the sacrifice of the sinless Lamb of God and it’s tremendous power! Worship Him afresh as the Spirit reveals new things about the salvation God made for us through Christ – and why He paid such a price. And live it now. This is GOOD Friday.

Prepare for Palm Sunday … prepare for Good Friday. Prepare to receive the One whom God sent to us. Let Him be to you the Messiah He really is because that’s the One you need.

I have often wondered how God could hold back His wrath as the sins of humanity just kept piling up …  I can only conclude that His love for us is so great, His mercy and compassion is so far reaching, so deep and rich, that it constrained His wrath, until the Lamb of God was ready to appear on the earth.

Is this list of last things enough for you, dear believer? Are they enough in the midst today with all that is going on for you?…

In fact, God reminded Moses that when he heard God’s voice, he saw no shape or form. God is beyond anything our minds can comprehend. So, what does it mean to have a personal relationship with this kind of God? I mean, that’s a hard thing for most people to nut out….

The blood of the Lamb of God cries out to Father as our witness that we are His redeemed saints and nothing can change that. We have been ransomed! Bought with a great unpayable price … But wait, there is more…

On more than one occasion early on he had established a small (discipleship) group only to return after ministering all over the countryside to find this group in disarray, and the wheels starting to fall off. He was perplexed to no end. Wesley began to strategise…

One job. It’s simple. Every disciple is a disciple-maker. Together we’re on a journey to discover what this means as we work together – a rejoicing band of disciples, learning how to become like Jesus, and helping others to do the same.

As I observe it, the biggest “fact” to which many believers feel entitled today is the “right” to pursue discipleship and faith on their own terms. Whether this is about contrary ideas to God’s Word concerning sexuality, gender, climate change, sin, the use of money and so on, doesn’t seem to bother these people. They create their own facts to justify preferred behaviour and values. This is the one big…

The Messiah is come. Immanuel, God is with us. Don’t miss Him in the busy crowd. Don’t pass by oblivious to His presence. Slow down and soak yourself in the story again and listen to the voice of the Spirit who inspired Luke to write.

The reason for the names of the wicked and the good … and others, too, is important. Good or wicked, Jew or foreigner, male or female, they were all part of the Messiah’s line. Matthew is showing his readers that God has been using all types of people to…

Well, Christmas is coming – and seems to be in a hurry this year. Christmas trees and decorations are popping up everywhere and the Christmas buy-up is happening as we look for gifts for loved ones and friends. Every year we see the same, of course, and we Christians see the crass commercialisation of Christmas, too – it is rampant and driven…

Now, we all know that when you light a match in a pitch-dark room, that one little match dispels a lot of surrounding darkness – way out of all proportion to its physical size. Light is incredibly powerful – remember I said that. John says several things here about Jesus;…

The Gethsemane scenes are harrowing and filled with such intense, exhausting anguish that He sweats blood. The Lord shares with His friends His deep sorrow. They sense the approaching dread but are still struggling to understand it all. They have no idea how shocking and faith destroying the next hours will be for them. They fall asleep praying, leaving Jesus to battle on alone.

But social media platforms are not the cause of all this, they are just the means to that end. The causes have been fermenting for many decades. The power of social media has simply accelerated things. There have always been disagreements between people. But, on the whole, the nature of public discourse has been polite and respectful of differing points of view. Not anymore.

Many of us have heard the rowdy chant in the streets of our capital cities in the last few weeks – “End the occupation!” The chant has gone up almost like a war cry as has the other chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” Both chants have featured in what the media intentionally and falsely label “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations in our capitals. They are actually “anti-Israel” demonstrations when we understand what these chants actually mean.

I had that experience in 1988 when I had been fasting and praying for my son, Tristan, who was suffering chronic asthma – so very frightening I could not leave him for a moment. On the eighth night in the early morning hours, as I was praying over him, suddenly everything went quiet. Absolute, utter silence….

This spirit is not new. It is beyond time and space and it is everywhere in the world – we saw it screaming obscenities at the Sydney Opera House last week. It has been seen all throughout human history in ancient and modern times. Hamas is but one of the major manifestations of this principality. It is demonic.

Why? That is THE question! Why is the prince of the kingdom of Persia so fanatically determined to kill Jews?