I was overcome by the grace and love of the Father for me in that sacred moment. I prayed for forgiveness, I prayed my thanks and gratitude to my God to whom I owe everything. I repented – started to think differently, too.

Life-changing, irreversible outcomes can begin in Primary School with parents having no say at all. If parents are involved and are deemed to be “unsupportive” by teachers, according to …

The heading for this BLOG is, of course, heavy sarcasm on my part. Of course, black is always black, and white is always white regardless of anyone’s opinion to the contrary. See, opinions don’t change facts and truth no matter how strenuously and persuasively…

When the dignity of another human being is trashed, ripped down and spat upon, mocked, disrespected and cancelled, more of the great reservoir of the sanctity of all human life disappears from us. The result is more fear, more hate and more violence.

Of course, the issues for the Laodiceans were more than this, but a lukewarm spirituality is never going to fire up the prayer boiler, is it? All prayer needs the spiritual equivalent of steam to really get the pressure and power to move and achieve powerful momentum. Otherwise, prayer is only warm water – maybe lukewarm water.

A bride is being prepared for Christ in our day, I believe. This bride, the Church, will be a warrior bride who will overcome and destroy the works of the devil – or she is not fit to be a bride for Him.

What of the future?
How do we live in a world like this?

Now we know why. Eternal glory stuff is treasure. It is in us. It outweighs anything this world throws at us for the sake of Jesus. This is a profound mystery.

But do we act on it in faith? To say, “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength” – is that a faithless cliché, or is that how we really live? What makes it more than a fact? What causes this to be true in personal experience?

Isaiah reminds the Israelites that especially in the place of grief and sorrow, especially when the reality of God’s correction is difficult to handle, especially when there seems like there is nothing to be joyful about – especially then, we do not throw away our harps and assume that God is not with us, that He has vacated His dwelling place in us. He is with us…

The simplicity of these worship scenes and the actor’s harp-playing and singing is quite something. One scene, in particular, portrays David in the court of King Saul with only Saul’s wife, Jonathon and Saul’s daughters present, and a guard at the door. David begins to play his harp and his song unto the Lord is immediately arresting in its purity and simplicity.

But his election was no automatic thing. He had to live out and value that election for the blessings of it to be realised. He did not. In a moment of fleshly recklessness…

That’s such a stark, confronting reality as death approaches – especially when we are not expecting it. And when a cherished loved one leaves us in that kind of way, when we expected differently, it’s a pretty jarring, painful experience.

This is overreach. The kind of legislation presumably envisioned to tackle cults and fringe groups amply lends itself to more such overreach…

I see all of the concerns, yes, and it feels so overwhelming at times, but I also see something else I have not seen before on such a large scale. I have never seen before in our country a deeper yearning for…

To some this may sound alarmist. I assure you that I am not the alarmist, bed-wetting type. I’m a realist. And I am discerning a great and accelerating convergence of…

At first glance these seem like deliberately offensive retorts from Jesus. Of course, they are not. Yes, He was being blunt, but He was making…

In last Sunday’s message I mentioned the “second holy trinity” of the Christian faith. I hope this didn’t upset anyone. The word “trinity” in a theological sense is…

This is the Church’s ONE JOB. And we are taking this seriously. But here’s the exciting thing. We are now more…

The imagery of gates and roads are illustrative of God’s perspective, which is reality. So, Jesus is deadly serious. The pronouncement describes two contrasting life pathways.