When I think of life, I think of the many forms of life on earth. We continue to discover new forms of life on earth and now look for its existence on other planets. God is the creator of this life we...

Philip’s request feels very human: ‘Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.’ He wants clarity, certainty, something that is visible and unmistakable. Jesus’s response is both...

Have you ever tried to describe a moment so wonderful that it defies your best efforts? How do you describe the feeling of watching the sunset over the mountains or the moment you held your child for...

The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most memorable passages of Jesus’s teaching, even for those who are not practising Christians. In it we are introduced to some of the deepest and most...

This parable challenges believers to emulate their Master by using all that God has given them for the sake of the kingdom. The parable of the talents is among the most abused texts in the New...

So many look at the words of Jesus and see a list of things to do. When I read this verse, I relax all over. He didn’t bring more rules and laws, with more ways to mess up (e.g., if you even lust...

Something lay on the deck, tossed by the wind. At first, I did not recognise it, but then remembered it was the clapper from the windchime I rescued a few years ago. The wind was not kind to the...

We live in a world full of voices. Every day we are surrounded by noise: social media, news, culture, expectations, fears, even our own thoughts. Everyone is telling us something about who we are,...

A few weeks ago, we celebrated Easter Sunday, one of the most significant days in the Christian calendar. Many of us likely spent a lot of time hearing about and meditating on the Empty Tomb. This is...

Paul, having instructed his young protégé, Timothy, on how to deal with the false teachers who had been troubling the church at Ephesus (1Timothy 1:3-7), turns his attention to the one thing that...

The first time I read this verse and applied it to myself, I cried. It was almost incomprehensible God might sing over me, delighting in me and calming my fears with his love. He’s like a mother,...

The geographical name Sin is related to the name Sinai and should not be confused with the English word ‘sin’, and yet it is still interesting. Was it really a coincidence? The similarity makes...

Timing is an important feature of the first half of Luke 24. In verse one we are told, ‘On the first day of the week [Sunday], very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared...

As a Christian, you are probably familiar with the metaphor of being ‘born again.’ Jesus used it when talking to Nicodemus to try to explain the radical difference that one must undergo to enter...

The writer of the letter to the Hebrew Christians, in the well-known 11th chapter, parades before us the Old Testament heroes of faith who with inspiring examples of steadfastness, simply believing...

‘Everybody is looking for something. Find it on (website).’ This was an online ad, which I usually ignore, but it caught my attention because it’s true. It’s also sad. I guess nothing...

She was just a small thing, all black with long fur. It was minus temperatures and the snow covered the ground. I called her, but she would run away and I would not see her again until the next day. I...

As I was growing up one of the TV programmes that I liked to watch was Mission Impossible. It depicted the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF)...

Have you ever heard someone being referred to as a ‘Doubting Thomas’? If you have, then you were probably aware that this was not meant as a compliment. It is typically used to describe someone...

By the Spirit, our risen, ascended Lord is with us always. And through his presence, he extends to us his peace (shalom), even in the most trying circumstances. Do we, trusting in Jesus, receive that...

Now that everyone has coloured eggs for the kids, been to church, had the family over for Easter dinner, cleaned up and put everything away, life goes on just as before.  Easter is...

Easter is a time when we rejoice over Christ’s completed work of salvation. The empty tomb was and is an open door to a new humanity in Jesus. It is at this time of year that we often retell the...

From this statement we can conclude that Mary expected to see the stone in place and the way locked to enter the tomb. So, how did she expect to get in, she could not remove the stone without help....

In James Cameron’s film Titanic, treasure hunters seek out 102-year-old Rose Calvert, who is believed to be the last person to have seen a fabulous diamond called the ‘Heart of the Ocean’, a...

There are moments in life that bridge the realms of what was and what will be. Places of transition, a threshold between what was and what will be. This is the liminal space, where the old fades away,...

Love, a force both gentle and mighty, has the extraordinary power to transform hearts and souls. It is a beacon of light that guides us through the darkest of storms, a force that reshapes us and the...

When Adam and Eve chose to go their own way, apart from God, and were expelled from the Garden of Eden, Cherubim and a flaming sword were put at the entrance to guard the way back to the tree of life....

From a Christian perspective the calendar this week marks the culmination of the most significant events in all of human history. We remember Jesus’s final meal with his disciples, and the bread and...

We come to one of the most dramatic and sobering moments in scripture. A governor stands before a crowd. A criminal and the Son of God wait in chains, and a question echoes through history: ‘Which...

Crowds once filled the streets of Jerusalem, waving branches and shouting ‘Hosanna!’ as Jesus rode into the city. Their voices rose with hope, longing for a king who would restore, redeem, and...

Checkmate! It’s the word the winning player declares in the endgame of chess when the losing king is trapped and as good as dead. Jesus died. Is our King a losing king? This King of Israel, after...

The Gospels reveal how Jesus built his ministry around relationships rather than possessions. From the outset with his disciples, his focus was clear. Come, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers...