Genesis

Praying God: “Trusting God”

“God can’t be trusted.” This is the lie at the centre of all our sin. That conviction also leads us to believe that resources are scarce. As a result we do not trust each other ...

Gluttony: Life is More Than

Food and drink are good and necessary for the health of our bodies, but we can easily overindulge those appetites, placing our physical desires over our spiritual good. To comba...

Wrath: Usurping God’s Role

Anger over injustice is good. We even see Jesus become angry in several places. But, we’re not Jesus and our anger can too easily give way to wrath. God is the only one who has ...

Acceptable Offering

Often the church approaches the topic of giving by summarizing the biblical mandate to give 10% of our income. This teaching focuses on duty which mars the heart of what it mean...

Tactics

Satan does not have the power to confront God and win. Rather, he needs to do his dirty work with espionage. He wants to corrupt and disrupt the plans and work of God. So, the t...

Sources of Illness

All illness results from sin, but not all illness is because of sin, and certainly not all illness is sin. Part of the context for understanding divine healing is to recognize t...

You Are Here

Julie Andrews once trilled, “Begin at the beginning, it’s a very good place to start.” When speaking about people progressing from no faith or hostile to faith, we must begin or...

Till Death We Do Part

In a culture of easy marriages, our enduring marriages become a unique witness to God’s enduring love for the world.

What’s the Plan?

Having cleared the ground, noting that marriage is not the end all and be all for everyone and that divorce can be handled gracefully, we now want to put forward a positive theo...

My Empowering Bible: Stepping into Our Created Design Together

Rachel walks us through God’s original intention for his image bearers — male and female — how the woman is the only one in creation equal to help the man and ...

Very Good, But Not God

Once we know who we are, we need to know where we are and how we answer that question determines a lot about how we live. The world we live in is neither junk nor divine, but go...

We Are Loved Beyond Measure

Who Are We? It’s an essential question that everyone asks because we have a sense that we need a purpose — we need value. Christianity has an answer to this fundamen...

Appearances Can Be Deceiving

Finally! they’re going to get what’s coming to them. Or, are they? How can there be both justice and mercy? And, what does that mean for us as the people of God?

Down But Not Out

There will be times when we’re down, but that doesn’t mean we’re out. God will pick us up again and set us on our feet. The key is to hang on and let him do hi...

No Time Outs

Can a situation, or life itself, get so bad that it’s okay to put aside our Christian convictions? If not, what is the key to staying faithful under such intense pressure?...

Rage Against the Machine

In the face of injustice our temptation is to rage, grab the levers of power, even get violent for the right reasons. But, the politics of the cross point us to a different syst...

Tough Mudder

Is God one of your priorities? Or, is he the one who sets your priorities? We need to let go of everything else in order to firmly hold on to him. It’s only by this sort o...

Deal or No Deal

Looks Can Be Deceiving

Which son will receive the blessing? Which one deserves it? The answer looks like neither, yet Jacob — that scoundrel — is blessed! How can this be good news? It is ...

Our Inheritance, Pain and Gain

Suffering is not a sign of God’s displeasure. When God adopts us to be his children we are sharing in Christ’s Sonship (grace/gain), but this is only true because we...