The question of evil is possibly one of the most common barriers to people coming into a relationship with God.
Some people start on Honour Island, but most of us start on either Average or Shame Island. Average Island is where the majority of the population dwells.
We can run the risk of making a day of rest just another thing to tick off the list. This was never the intention of God.
If this young couple had never given attention to a divinely-inspired dream, we would not be celebrating Christmas the way we do today.
It takes a lot of faith to see the troubles and setbacks of life as an opportunity for God to bless you in another way, and Jesus did it.
“There’s something about the character or nature of God that you discover in those places, that [you] can never find on the mountaintop”.
I always felt sorry for the 144,001st person; you know the one who missed out and didn’t make the quota for the number of people who get saved.
When someone responds negatively to a conversation, there’s usually an underlying reason for it. The key is to look past the response to try and understand.
There’s different views about who Jesus was, but they can be basically boiled down to four key ideas.
Turmoil is both the soundtrack and the screenplay of our humanity. Why, then, if our brokenness is universal, do we dress it up with photos carefully posed?
