‘Christianity just does not work!’ announced one of my fellow Theology students. He went on at length to basically say that in his experience, ‘Christianity does not do what it says on the tin’. It...

Being a ‘teacher type’ I sometimes get asked by leaders I work with to cover very specific topics when I speak at their churches. And recently the request was, ‘Can you please speak on suffering?’ I’ll...

I was recently wrestling to explain to a relatively new Christian how God works in us as his people. I found myself using the phrase ‘Christ in us’ a lot, because that is how the Bible describes it....

I am the youngest of 4 children. When I was born my siblings were 8, 10 and 16 … so there was a big gap before I came along! That led to a lot of speculation and healthy banter in the family that I...

Every follower of Jesus, ministry initiative and local church has a cutting edge. It is the leading edge of their advance, the point where they effectively penetrate the kingdom of darkness and advance...

To truly represent Jesus and be the church He promised to build (Matthew 16:18), each local church must be a true community. We use the word community in many ways these days but its Latin root is the...

Everyone wants peace. It is a universally desired state… Whereas, dis-peace is corrosive; it eats away at our hearts, minds and relationships; it separates people one from the other, breeding fear and...

Life is only ever as good as the health of your relationships. They truly enrich our lives, so must be looked after, cultivated and nurtured. It’s a bit like gardening: the soil of our relationships...

Everything starts with a thought; the good the bad and the ugly! That’s why it‘s true to say that ‘you are what you think’ … everything comes out of your mind. As the Bible puts it, ‘As a man thinks...