Love
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God’s Guarantee
Most products these days come with some sort of guarantee … and ...
Day Before
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The Faintest Hint of Dawn
There are two types of people in this world – larks and owls; ...
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Saturday Guard Duty
For most of us, Saturday is a day of rest, or at the very least, a ...
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The Final Judgement
Here we are once more on this terrible day called “Good Friday.” ...
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The Plot Thickens
Assassinations … well, they’re as old as time. T’was jealousy ...
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A Personal Attack
A classic tactic when you want to undermine someone whom you ...
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What Do You Expect?
Well, as we roll into Easter week, what are you expecting, what are ...
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In the Shelter of the Most High
Somehow, the world always seems to be teetering on the edge of ...
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Don’t Weaponise Your Faith
If there is indeed a God in heaven, you’d want Him to be a God of ...
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Let the Love Flow
So much of the vitriol that swills around the arena of public debate ...
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Save Yourself
I’m a great fan of people (myself included) stepping up and taking ...
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God’s Kindness Towards You
Often – in fact, more often than we might expect – a simple act ...
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The Richness of Mercy
Mercy is something that, intuitively at least, we want to pull up ...
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How to Treat People
Most of us, most days, interact with quite a few people – at work, ...
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Don’t Blame the System
We don’t think about it all too often, but the world – my world, ...
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The Hostage Negotiation
The idea of being taken hostage is one of the scariest of all things ...
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God’s Modus Operandi (2)
Might I ask you, what’s your mission in life? What are you meant to ...
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God’s Modus Operandi (1)
There are two types of people in this world – those who talk about ...
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Faithful Forever
I came across a ridiculous article in my news feed recently written ...
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Unfailing Joy
There invariably comes a time when we have to take a leap of faith. ...
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So Amazing
Isn’t it just the most amazing thing when someone shows you some ...
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How to Change the World
If you could change the world, what would you change? Personally, ...
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If Only They Behaved
I tell you, there are people out there who behave so badly, without ...
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God Only Knows
Have you ever had someone tell you about things in so much detail, ...
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The Easy Way or the Hard Way
It seems to me that in dealing with the people in our lives, ...
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Joyful Jesus (3)
The world makes for a fickle audience. Sometimes they’re cheering ...
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Joyful Jesus (2)
The world’s full of cheap imitations, knockoffs of expensive brands ...
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The Alternative
Today I’d like to share a sobering message with you. It may not be ...
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Bearing Good Fruit
So what does it mean to live your best life? Is it about the stuff ...
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Kindness and Love
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this too, but some people are ...
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Patience and Devotion to God
With just one life to live here on this earth, a life that seems to ...
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Goodness and Knowledge
Most of us just want to do good. We want to be decent and kind. We ...
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This is How Change Happens
As world events unfold around us – everything from wars to ...
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Absolutely Mind-Blowing
As we tread tentatively into this new year, we’re on a journey ...
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Make Peace with the Past
Imagine for a moment that you’re a soldier heading into battle. ...
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The Power of God’s Grace
Can I ask you … what exactly is grace? For some it’s a religious ...
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The Logic of Love
There’s something that has bothered me for many years. And ...
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Something to Think About
As we turn our thoughts toward Christmas there’s something that, ...
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What’s the Point?
Question: What was God thinking when He hatched this plan that these ...
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A Child of God
As we mature, hopefully, we grow in wisdom. But as you do, becoming ...
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Nevertheless … Love
Without doubt, someone’s love toward us is at its finest when we ...
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Ignorant, Brutish Behaviour
Have you ever pricked a balloon with a needle? One moment it’s this ...
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The Pencil Case
We all have certain things we own, that are special, that we ...
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God’s Intent
The ability to discern someone’s intentions is incredibly ...
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When Love Prevails
As movie themes go, love stories would have to be amongst the most ...
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Give Thanks to the Lord
To a great extent, how we experience life – what we get, what we ...
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There is None Like Him
So, how much do you think of your life as being the journey of a ...
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God is Good
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to lose sight of the truly ...
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True Christianity
Spending your life pleasing others, working your way into their ...
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Peace Begins at Home
In many parts of the world, the way children are being raised these ...
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Family Peace 101
Being part of a loving family is one of the greatest blessings in ...
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Addicted to Outrage
So, how do you feel about the people running your country, your state ...
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The Impact of Grace
When someone shows you some sort of kindness, even just the smallest ...
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Peace All Around
I wonder, what battles are you facing at the moment? A struggling ...
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The Promise of Peace
There are many things in this world that promise so much – career, ...
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving
I remember way back in my life that when those Christians started ...
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We All Have This Common Need
We all, from time to time, find ourselves in need of the good will of ...
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Take Stock of Your Motives
So, the last time you said or did something that on reflection just ...
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What’s in a Name?
Do you, like me, sometimes struggle to remember a person’s name two ...
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One Size Does Not Fit All
I think we’ve all had the exceedingly frustrating experience of ...
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The Message from the Beginning
Love is such a simple word. And when you think about being loved – ...
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The Ultimate Goal of God’s Love
I’d like you, if you would, please, to picture the face of the most ...
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Forgiveness is a Lovely Idea, Until …
Can I be honest with you? I used to be … well, not a very nice ...
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Simply Being There
Anyone who’s ever brought up children knows how important it is to ...
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Taking Advice from a Prisoner
If someone wrote you a letter from prison with some advice for how ...
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Calling to God
Have you ever done something so bad, so wrong, so hurtful to someone ...
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Will You Compromise?
Sometimes we’re faced with an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, you ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have ...
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I Love You Lord!
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. ...
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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something ...
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Is God Even Listening?
Have you been asked for advice and, as you were sharing your ...
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Not One of Us
It never ceases to amaze me how tribalistic we’ve become without ...
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Shifting Our Priorities
Serving others is something that, on the one hand, we know we need to ...
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The Essence of Empathy
Empathy is one of the most poignant and powerful expressions of love ...
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The Power of Words
If only we realised the power of our words. I heard someone say once ...
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You Can Rely on God’s Integrity
What do you do when you find yourself in a tough spot feeling ...
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The Recipe for Peace (3)
Day-to-day, let me ask you, what drives your thinking? What causes ...
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The Recipe for Peace (2)
Here’s a blunt, inconvenient truth: your attitude towards the ...
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The Foolishness of the Cross
Can I ask you today, how smart are you? As you look back on your ...
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You Have Been Blessed
Let’s be honest. There are days when things just don’t seem to be ...
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Grace and Peace to You
When you run into someone whom you haven’t seen in a while, how do ...
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The Most Radical Remedy
Long-standing, deep-seated hatred is as old as time itself. It began ...
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The Ultimate Price
The central message of Christianity – the ‘Good News’ as it’s ...
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Know the Unknowable
Do you ever look up at the vastness of the night sky and marvel at ...
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This One Thing for You
Yep, it’s the weekend – hooray! Hopefully the chance for a bit of ...
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Good Theology Ain’t Enough
Different people understand the Good News of Jesus in different ways. ...
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Love is Never Wasted
Have you ever done someone a good turn and then been miffed when they ...
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Don’t be Offended
When others behave badly, it’s so easy for us to take offence. In ...
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The World Has Enough Critics
Criticism and conflict seem to be de rigueur these days in the public ...
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Often Overlooked
The more I see of people’s lives the more I’m impacted by the ...
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake ...
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Don’t Ignore the Red Flags
I think we’d agree that looking for the good in others, seeing ...
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Don’t Throw Stones
When we see someone else doing the wrong thing, all too often we feel ...
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The Generosity You Dish Out
Do you mind if I ask you what may be a somewhat confronting question? ...
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The Kindest Person in the Room
Different people are smart in different ways. You may be highly ...
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Be Kind, Generous and Fair
You know what I think? I think that it’s all too easy to ...
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What Sort of Neighbour are You?
Neighbours have a funny way of getting on one another’s nerves. Be ...
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The Simple Power of Love
With so much bad stuff going on around us you have to ask yourself, ...
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Does God Still Punish Us?
So let me ask you, does God still punish His children? When you do ...
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When You’re In Trouble
There are times in our lives when the ability to stand confidently on ...