• An Easter Tale

    Reading Time: 7 minutes

    Let me tell you a tale.
    It starts in a garden, long, long ago.
    And what a garden it was – literally, a paradise on earth. A place of grandeur and beauty, filled with trees of every description and with leaves in every shade of green, soaring upwards toward a sky so blue it hurts the eyes.
    The sound of a great river can be heard flowing through this garden paradise, a source of life and refreshing for…

  • A Christian Response To The Global Crisis

    Reading Time: 4 minutes

    How we, as Christians, respond in times of crisis is not just vitally important for our own faith and for our witness of the gospel, it’s important for the wellbeing of those around us, who may be struggling with doubts and fears in what is a very distressing and anxious time.

    A Measured And Faithful Response
    I want to speak plainly to a disturbing trend currently being observed amongst some, in response to the current pandemic facing…

  • What Is A Disciple?

    Reading Time: 6 minutes

    The word disciple occurs frequently throughout the Bible and ‘discipleship’ is something that the Bible references often. But what does the word disciple actually mean? And what does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?

    What Is A Disciple?
    Our English language Bibles were translated from manuscripts written primarily in two languages; Hebrew (in the Old Testament) and Greek (in the New Testament). The translative history of the Bible is a fascinating journey, from an academic…

  • The Gospel Of Good News

    Reading Time: 4 minutes

    When we think of the gospel, we can tend to think of it in only ‘New Testament’ terms. We might be of the impression that the gospel was something that came about around the time of Jesus and subsequently spread throughout the world by his followers. While this is somewhat true, upon more extensive reading we learn that the message of good news is much older than we thought. Yes, it concerns Jesus but it…