While serving in Afghanistan, Haydn Lea realised he had a talent for comforting his comrades with his newfound Christian wisdom.
During COVID, those weird Old Testament laws about isolating, washing hands and social distancing from the unclean suddenly make a lot of sense.
Think of the last time someone whispered something to you. They weren’t on the other side of the room, they were right next to you.
In our culture of modern idolatry, we have made our stuff our god. Your stuff may disappear, but God’s not going anywhere.
The measure of our forgiveness for others is not the forgiveness we are offered, but rather the forgiveness we choose to receive.
There’s nothing we can do to earn the grace of salvation. It is 100% a free gift – undeserved and unmerited. But how we live still matters.
Does God see me? Can he hear me? How could he possibly love me? Am I really going to heaven? Is the rapture going to happen tonight?
There are many things that are odd about the resurrection of Jesus, but then again there were many things that are odd about his ministry and his death.
Grace, by its very definition, seeks us out and comes to us, and it brings with it the opportunity for us to accept it and respond.
God is in the business of using frail, fallible and ordinary people, because that’s the only kind there is. God can use you.
