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.

The future is not far away.
It tends to arrive more rapidly than we expect.

I clearly remember one cold winter night in my room. I was alone and it was well after lights out. I was reading by candlelight (yes, we did have electricity!). It was a very cold, wet and windy night. I shivered in that spartan bungalow…

We have to be so discerning about the effects of syncretism – how subtle and dangerous it is, how prevalent, how determined it is. For the believer, syncretism is the death of the spiritual life. And so, we trust …

Eugenics science has become a major thing. But the science is becoming more and more synthesised with dangerous philosophy and ideology and, if left strictly unchecked (like we didn’t do with IVF for noble purposes), the science will increasingly become a means to evil ends.

Between now and then the Word will continue to speak. To woo His lost lambs home. The rhema Voice will be heard by millions of God’s people, too.

In the early Church, by the time John was writing his Gospel narrative, there had already arisen various heresies that disputed Jesus’ divinity, and also His humanity. Left unaddressed and unrefuted such heresies would have distorted the true Gospel. Some argued that…