Psalm 32 Searching for Blessing I think it’s fair to say most of us want to live a blessed life, don’t we? We want to experience and enjoy good things, and we want to celebrate them. Searching the hashtag #blessed in …
Romans 4 Is it really enough just to believe? When I think about the conversations I’ve had with people over the past 15 years or so about Christianity – that is, where I am discussing the gospel with people who …
Romans 2:1-16 Don’t cheer too loudly In our household, when one of our older two kids is spiralling into disobedience and bad reactions and getting in trouble from us, it’s not uncommon for the other child to suddenly start talking …
Romans 1:16-17 Ashamed of the gospel I still remember the first time I felt truly alienated and ridiculed for being a Christian. In my second year of university, after attending the mid-year conference with the Christian student group, I had …
Luke 24:36-53 We all want peace By personality I am a ‘peacemaker’. Like many people, I don’t enjoy conflict or confronting people. I find difficult conversations… difficult! I naturally have a diplomatic manner rather than a ‘tell it like it …
Luke 22:39-65 Struggling to improve? When I was in primary school I did a couple of years of Little Athletics. It was the only official ‘out of school sport’ I ever did (my parents were more active in supporting music …
Luke 21:5-38 I remember someone close to me, a thoughtful and devout Christian, mentioning that he was concerned about what he was hearing in the news about what was going on between Russia and some other eastern European country, because …
Luke 19:45 – 20:19 Who are you to tell me what to do? Recently as we were driving to the beach, I made the mistake of playing George one of my favourite songs from my high school years. In the …
2 Timothy 1:13-2:13 What’s driving you? At the latest working bee in January, Roberto, July and I finally finished the deck at the church manse next door. 99% of the work was finished almost a year ago, after 2 months …
