I think that one of the most challenging things in life for each of us to accept is the fact that God loves us. Now, this reality is true whether we admit it...

The Church in many of its local manifestations is essential for the way we understand mission. Nevertheless, we must be careful never to permit our understan...

We must be careful how we understand mission. If we understand it as a human activity or a matter of our obedience to God’s command, then we are always in da...

The gospel is empty, if history carries no meaning, if the universe ends in a catastrophic black hole, or if it fades away slowly running out of energy. With...

We each possess a dark side, which we hide not only from ourselves. But also from those around us and those close to us. The dark side is that shadowy aspect...

Sometimes when we are sharing with someone who is seeking to comprehend the nature of human belief, we fail to understand what he or she is trying to say. Be...

I don’t think that anything meaningful or worthwhile in life comes to us without cost. Even the grace of God, which comes to us free of charge, is not withou...

One of the dangers of those who are commissioned to communicate the Gospel of the kingdom is not merely that we talk too much. But that we engage in a monolo...

We live in the age of social media when it appears, at least on the surface, that many people are willing and open to reveal the most intimate things about t...

To be a Christian is to have entered into an intimate relationship with the living God and his people. It involves both a vertical relationship with God and ...

When the scriptures tell us that, “God is love” they do so in the context of the sacrificial love of the son for his people, and our need to love one another...

The love of God must never be played off against the holiness of God. Today, some emphasise the love of God to the exclusion of the holiness of God. Others f...

In the consumer-orientated society in which we now live consumption, and the making of money are central to the system. We are always encouraged to consume m...

We live in a world where noise, confusion and conflict abound where silence and solitude have been forgotten or even displaces — a world where men and women ...

No one who professes to follow Jesus Christ can exempt themselves from genuine concern for the poor. To be a faithful follower of Jesus involves an authentic...

When Jerusalem was destroyed, and the Temple left in ruins, many people in Judah were taken into exile in Babylon. It was then that those who lived in exile ...

Over the past hundred years, Western society has increasingly lost its way as it has plunged deeper and deeper into the swamp of meaninglessness. We have bec...

The place of God's people in the world today is to be one in which we are called to take the world seriously without buying into the world's values. We must ...

What if, we went through life with the word ‘Hallelujah’ on our lips and in our hearts? Now, I am not saying that we go around saying ‘hallelujah’ all the ti...

There is a desperate need for us, as the people of God, to be missional right where we are in the context of our everyday lives. Being missional is a lifesty...