The Art of Celebration

If you have seven minutes to spare, I strongly recommend you watch this video from Rend Collective explaining the heart behind their new album ‘The Art of Celebration.’  It’s summed up in their comment “This record is an attempt to reflect something...

God’s not finished!

One of the most encouraging verses in the Bible is Phil 1:6 which says ‘being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.’ In our journey towards spiritual maturity, it behoves us to...

We learn what we live

The poem ‘Children Learn What They Live’ by Dorothy Law Nolte does not only apply to children! ‘If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be...

Our role in other people’s growth

Although we cannot actually be responsible for other people’s spiritual growth and need God to effect growth in us, we are not meant to grow spiritually in isolation, for ‘the life into which we grow to maturity in Christ is a life formed in community.’...

Daily Bread

Stephen continued preaching on the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9-15), looking at verse 11: ‘Give us today our daily bread.’ This verse talks about provision and reminds us how God provided for the Israelites in the wilderness (see Ex 16:14-15), but...