Helpful thoughts from Steve Brown reflecting on the conscious choice of Jesus to be involved in the lives of others, and all that choice entails. What does that mean for us. Jesus refused to be a loner. Jesus is God and one of his attributes is self-sufficiency. The Westminster Confession of Faith states, “God hath …
Five ways to recognise if a church newcomer is a church-shopper from Carey Nieuwhof. “Trying to appease a serial church shopper is an exercise in pleasing the un-pleasable.” Read the whole post here.
William Willimon muses on the implications of Jesus being the way: Surely Jesus means more than simply his way of life (and death) is to be the disciples’ way. He doesn’t say that his philosophy is the way (as Plato might have said) but rather “I am the way… “ A person, rather than a …
David Cook returns to the town of Wee Waa in country NSW for a weekend of Easter ministry and reflects on the enduring legacy of people he served with as their pastor over thirty years ago. “They grew cotton, but they so lived and live that they robbed death of many of its prey, by …
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