• Just Start

    You don’t know what you’re capable of until you actually start something. As the famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff once said: “If you never take a shot, it means you will never score.” But the problem is that most people never even start. They don’t take a shot. They

  • Decision Making As A Believer

    You know, if an angel appeared to me and told me exactly what to do with my life, I reckon my faith would suddenly become quite impressive. If the angel arrived in a blaze of heavenly light, called me by name and gave me clear instructions about what to do

  • Taking Responsibility?

    Everyone knows what happened in the Garden of Eden. Eve was tempted by the serpent, ate the forbidden fruit, persuaded Adam to eat it too, and humanity fell into sin. It is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible, and perhaps that familiarity is precisely the problem. We

  • The Gospel of How

    There was a gospel that Jesus preached: “the gospel of the kingdom” (e.g., Matthew 4:23; Mark 1:14–15; Acts 1:3), and when he told his disciples to go and proclaim it, we have no reason to presume they preached another. The latecomer, too—the apostle Paul—while spending time in Rome, spoke to

  • Preaching In Public?

    There are some things you simply don’t do on public transport. You don’t put your phone on speaker. You don’t blast your music. And, as one American preacher discovered this week, you probably shouldn’t stand up in the middle of a packed Sydney train and start telling complete strangers that

  • Can You Answer This Question As A Christian?

    Someone shared a quote from atheist speaker Tracie Harris. It wasn’t hostile. It wasn’t sarcastic. It was simply a challenge that I think every Christian should take seriously. This is what she wrote: “You either have a god who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a god

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