Mountain-top experiences

Dave spoke this morning on the Transfiguration of Jesus (Mark 9:2-9). So many people seem to crave physical transformation these days through cosmetic surgery and Botox; Michael Jackson, for example, was transformed by plastic surgery, but in essence, this only deals...

Strength through weakness

One of the hardest things for us to accept is that in God’s kingdom, strength often comes through brokenness. None of us like being broken. We want to be whole; we strive for wholeness and completeness. We want to be strong. The world tells us that we can only be...

Everyday Strength

There can be no doubt that God is strong and mighty (see Ps 24:8). However,there are also times when we come face to face with paradox and have to learn the mysteries of the Godhead; times when to access God’s strength, we have to lay down our understanding of...

God is strong!

Strength probably conjures up different pictures in our minds: strong buildings… … or strong people: or super-heroes: We might think of Samson (single-handedly killing a lion in Judges 14:5-6 and killing thirty men in one go at Ashkelon in Judges 14:19):...