28th September 2025
Over the years there have been many wise words spoken about contentment: Socrates said, ‘He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.’...
27th September 2025
They were known as the Roaring 20s in American history. It was a time of unprecedented prosperity. Unemployment rates were nearly non-existent, loan rates were unbelievably low, and the American...
26th September 2025
It is the psalm that most people have heard of, in one form or another. It is sung at funerals and weddings. It is used as a heartfelt prayer when people find themselves facing trials. It is sung in...
25th September 2025
On the eve of his crucifixion, we overhear Jesus reporting to the Father that those entrusted to him would receive eternal life. But eternal life, according to Jesus, is not just about a distant...
24th September 2025
In my last study, I mentioned Jesus is a servant-listener. I became acquainted with this term in a book by Jan Johnson, Invitation to the Jesus Life, Experiments in Christlikeness. We...
23rd Septemer 2025
The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) primarily addressed Christ’s divinity against Arian heresy: a belief that taught that Jesus Christ was not co-eternal with the Father but was a created being. The...
22nd September 2025
Our five little kittens have reached the stage where they need to explore and become familiar with the world outside, and so they have been allowed some morning time to learn to climb the trees and...
21st September 2025
You can’t read the New Testament without realising that prayer is essential to the spiritual life of Christians. In our header scripture, Paul is encouraging Timothy to lead the church in Ephesus...
20th September 2025
Where is God when it hurts? It’s a question most of us have asked at least once as we’ve watched others struggle through unbearable pain or trial. For many believers, the hurt results in genuine...
19th September 2025
Throughout history kingdoms and empires have risen to greatness and then faded into memory. Babylon with its hanging gardens, Rome with its grand columns, the mighty dynasties and pyramids of Egypt,...
18th September 2025
These verses are very important, especially today. It feels easier to condemn someone who believes or behaves differently from us than to do good to them. It feels easier to write people off when they...
17th September 2025
Most of us have used the old saying, what you don’t know won’t hurt you. It means remaining ignorant of a situation relieves you of responsibility to worry or think about it...
16th September 2025
When you consider the kingdom of God, what do you imagine it is like? What images come to mind? What hopes? In the Gospels, we are gifted with several accounts of Jesus talking about the kingdom of...
15th September 2025
Can I say that water comes in many forms? You have those ice cubes in your drinks, that water vapor in the sky we call clouds, ice cold water out of the tap or in the streams, but I love it just hot...
14th September 2025
Saul, ‘who was also called Paul’ (Acts 13:9), was, before his conversion, an Orthodox Jew: a Pharisee with status in the Sanhedrin, which was the governmental board of Judea during the Roman...
13th September 2025
There’s something powerful about receiving a letter from someone you admire, a mentor who has walked the path ahead of you, who knows the struggles, and who believes in the calling you carry....
12th September 2025
An identity crisis is defined as a period of uncertainty or confusion in a person’s life. This crisis occurs when a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure and unstable. An identity crisis...
11th September 2025
Jesus Christ is not only the Saviour, the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world, he is also the Judge before whom all humanity will one day stand. The roots of Jesus’s role as judge are firmly...
10th September 2025
A recent development in the social media world is the abundance of influencers. Some of them have many followers, who apparently pay a lot of attention to what they say. Historically, someone...
9th September 2025
The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Colossians was a response to concerns brought to his attention by Epaphras, who had established the fledgling church at Colossae. In chapter two, Paul outlines two...
8th September 2025
There is nothing like laying down after an exhausting day of work and resting. I know my time of rest is over when the five kittens we have start jumping on me over and over again. They are like...
7th September 2025
To affirm someone is to support, encourage, and confirm another’s worth and dignity, and in Philemon, Paul’s shortest and most personal letter written during his first imprisonment in Rome, he...
6th September 2025
Have you ever had friends who have hurt one another deeply and who are unable or unwilling to work together to heal the rift? Perhaps you have a deep desire for them to reconcile, and it hurts that it...
5th September 2025
Here the gospel writer, Luke, is recounting the Apostle Paul’s address to people gathered in the synagogue in Antioch, now Antakya, located in southern Turkey. He is writing of King David. The...
4th September 2025
Each year, the Christian church celebrates the events of that first Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit inspired the apostle Peter to declare before a gathered crowd that the man Jesus, publicly condemned...
3rd September 2025
We live in an unprecedented time where hundreds of translations and other versions of the Bible are available, and that’s just in English. With a Bible app or website, you can compare verses in...
2nd September 2025
The creed’s reference to the return of Jesus, often referred to as the Second Coming or Parousia, 1 is one of the most significant themes in Christian theology. One theologian goes as far as saying,...
1st September 2025
We can slide by this verse if we are not careful. It is telling us that in Christ, we his children are all blessed with the wealth of God. It amazes me to think that God is sharing his wealth with us,...
31st August 2025
I recently saw on Facebook a phrase which read, ‘If your theology doesn’t lead to song, then there is something wrong with your theology.’ As I thought about that statement it seemed to me that...
30th August 2025
You’ve heard the phrase, ‘Don’t settle for less!’ It’s a well-meaning attempt to motivate you to not give up on the best life you have envisioned for yourself. You’ve likely heard the...
29th August 2025
There are only two ways of life, the way of the flesh: the way of our former life (Ephesians 4:22), and the way of the Spirit: the way of the new life that is now ours in Christ (Ephesians 4:24)), and...
28th August 2025
According to the account in Genesis, in the beginning humans enjoyed a direct, personal relationship with God in the Garden of Eden. He walked and talked with them. Yet since the fall, humanity’s...
27th August 2025
Have you ever read a verse in the Bible and thought, what exactly does that mean? I’ve read Philippians 2:3 many times but did a full stop last time, wondering, exactly how we are supposed to do...
26th August 2025
Luke tells the story of Jesus Christ’s ascension twice (Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9-11), and the longer ending of Mark also mentions it, adding that at his ascension ‘he sat at the right hand of...
25th August 2025
We have entered the realm of upgrading the house with new flooring; the old had lost its charm as it lost the pattern it held with years of wear. I never imagined how it would overturn my life. I...
24th August 2025
Why does the shed blood of Jesus speak a better word than the spilt blood of Abel? To begin to answer that question we have to go back to the dawn of human history. Abel was a righteous man (Matthew...
23rd August 2025
Have you ever left home without your wallet or mobile phone? Or any item that you almost always have with you? I think most of us can relate to the wave of panic that ensues when we have forgotten...
22nd August 2025
As we read through the book of Revelation, we are reminded that even Christian believers are not immune from the pain of suffering and persecution, even persecution to death. After all, we understand...
21st August 2025
On the road to Emmaus Jesus said to Cleopas and another disciple, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these...
20th August 2025
In Old Testament days, animal sacrifice was a daily part of life. Different kinds were made – grain, burnt, peace, sin and guilt. They were required for practically everything, from giving birth,...