2017

Sometimes as you’re reading the Bible you hit a phrase or sentence that throws you for a loop. There’ll be a verse that sounds weird, that doesn’t seem to make

Tim Chester, in his book, You Can Change, tells a story of a little girl named Sophie: “It was Sophie’s first day with her adoptive parents. She stalked nervously round

One of my favourite childhood holidays was travelling through the Northern Territory when I was ten. Dad and Mum had planned this amazing trip: flying to Alice Springs, and then

“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” — 1 Corinthians 15:35 In the decades I’ve been a Christian — since I was a kid

Gospel ministry in the New Testament is always pictured as team ministry. Jesus gathered a team of disciples and he sent them out as a team. The Apostles worked in

Paul talks about a gift of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:10, 30), and then returns to the topic of tongues and how they work in the gathering in 1 Corinthians 14.

After talking about change as not coming through morality or rule keeping, it might seem a bit contradictory to talk about discipline as an important part of the Christian life.

Thomas Chalmers, a Scottish preacher who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries, wrote about ‘the expulsive power of a new affection’. He said, ‘Christians overcome the world by seeing

Earlier this week a number of our team were reflecting on the lust talk from Sunday. It’s been a big term so far in our series, Life Beyond The Seven

As Australia prepares to fill out a survey about Same Sex Marriage, I recently conducted a simple survey of my own. I asked what my friends consider the “best song/hymn