There is an old saying: practice what you preach. It doesn’t only apply to preachers, of course! The message is that you should live a consistent life. If you say something is important, you need to live it out yourself. Nowhere is this more important than in churches. Preaching and Bible teaching of various forms …
The logic of evangelism is really simple. Christians have the good news, the news about Jesus the King who has died in our place and risen again to pay for our sins. This is the most important news ever. It is news that we are tasked with telling others about. And, for some of these …
What do you do when you have a few minutes with nothing to do? If you’re like most of the world, your tendency is to pull out your phone and scroll. It might be news, or social media, or email, but we have mainly loss the ability to just ‘be’. We need to fill the …
I went to university in the dark old days, when we needed to do all the research ourselves. When I studied in my honours year, I needed to scour physical journal articles stored in a compactus in the bowels of the university library (yes, I’m that old!). I even needed to use microfiche for some …
Every new advance in technology has positive and negative aspects to it. We gain something, and we also lose something. That’s the reality. A new technology doesn’t mean that everything about the world is now better than it was before. This applies to all kinds of technological advances. Think about transport technologies as an example. …
The church is not an event run by professionals who do all the ministry while everyone else receives it. No, the Biblical model of church has everyone involved in service. We see this clearly in Ephesians 4. Ephesians 4:11-16 set up a pattern of how the church is supposed to operate. And it is so …
Christians are people who love and honour Jesus. We think that Jesus is the greatest gift and most important person ever. Jesus taught people to love God and one another; so why then are people so offended by us speaking about Jesus? Galatians 6 can help us understand this. In v12, Paul returns to the …
We live in an era of many opportunities to escape the real world. Different people will do this in different ways. Some will be physically walking through the world but absorbing none of it due to the music playing in their headphones and the mobile phone up against their face. Others will go into social …
I love to read. In theory, I like to read literary fiction, and when I am relaxed and not too tired, I still do. Give me a good Russian novelist or a Booker Prize winner and I am pretty sure I would enjoy it. Yet, if I am honest with myself, I am often not …
It is human nature to notice the things that are wrong rather than the things that are right. We complain about traffic so quickly, but don’t revel in a smooth car trip quite so much. We love to tell others about bad experiences we have had with customer service, but don’t leave positive feedback when …