All Christian parents would love to have their kids learn about God and come to love him for themselves in good time. If trusting in Jesus is the central thing in our lives, of course we would like to pass that on to our children. And like all other things we want our children to …
Have you ever had that feeling of being overwhelmed? Of thinking that there are so many things to do and so little time? Of worrying that you won’t be able to get everything done and that it will all fall down if you don’t do it? I’m sure we’ve all been there at one point …
God made each of us for a bigger purpose. We are not satisfied with just going through the motions every day. We need hope. We need to know that there is some bigger picture to life, some purpose beyond the tasks we are working on day by day. Think of the swimmer who trains in …
Where do you look when you have a problem? When you need to do a task you haven’t done before, or when you find strains and stresses in your closest relationships? When you don’t know the best decision to make when faced with a range of reasonable-sounding options? All of us have a tendency to …
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 …