Values
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Build Your Imperfect Family: Five Practices for Healthier Relationships
Family is one of God’s greatest gifts—and one of life’s greatest challenges. There is no perfect family, but through prayer, forgiveness, honesty and grace, we can help build healthier families and churches.
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You Are Not Your Feelings: Finding Emotional Maturity
Our culture encourages us to trust our feelings above almost everything else. But what if our feelings aren’t telling us the whole truth? Drawing on Scripture, Viktor Frankl, Arthur C. Brooks and the example of Jesus, this article explores what emotional maturity looks like and why followers of Jesus can acknowledge every feeling honestly without allowing those feelings to become their master.
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Getting the Life You Want: Why Happiness Isn’t the Goal
Most of us want to be happy, but what if we’ve been aiming at the wrong target? Drawing on our everyday experience, the timeless wisdom of Scripture, and insights from Arthur C. Brooks’ Getting the Life You Want, this article explores why happiness is not simply the absence of sadness, pain, or struggle. Instead, it points us towards something richer—a life marked by enjoyment, purpose, satisfaction, and hope. If Jesus really came so that we might “have life, and have it to the full,” perhaps it’s time to stop chasing happiness and start discovering the whole life he offers.
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Why Following Your Feelings Isn’t Working (and What to Do Instead)
We’re often told to follow our feelings, but the Bible suggests something more complex. Our inner world is shaped by many influences—some healthy, some not—and real life is found not in following every feeling, but in anchoring our hope in God.
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Six Ways We Structure Time — And Why It Matters.
We structure time in six basic ways — withdrawal, ritual, pastime, activity, psychological games, and intimacy. Most of us move between them without noticing. But these patterns shape our relationships, our church life, and even our sense of hope. Which one dominates your life? And what would it take to move toward real intimacy?
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What Makes a Nation? Faith, Story, and Aboriginal Sunday
Australia Day raises a deeper question than a date: what actually makes a nation? A reflection on story, faith, and why Aboriginal Sunday matters for Christians today.
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5 Counterintuitive Truths for Kingdom Living Today
Modern Christianity often settles for a thin story about getting to heaven someday. But Jesus invites us into Kingdom living today—a life where heaven’s reality begins now. These five counterintuitive truths challenge comfort, reshape faith, and call us to join God’s renewing work in the world.
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Which Version of Christianity Are You Living?
Paul and Apollos both preached Jesus as Messiah. But not everyone meant the same thing when they used that word—and we still don’t. From prosperity to self-help, we’ve created different versions of Christianity that serve us instead of Jesus. So the real question is: which version are you living?
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How to free yourself from the oppression of money and time
Jesus calls us to seek His kingdom first, challenging our culture’s obsession with financial security and personal convenience. True discipleship is measured by how we use our money and time. When we surrender control, trust God fully, and serve with generosity, we step into the freedom and joy of His kingdom.
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The Confronting Message of Christmas: Justice, Truth, and an Invitation to Life
Christmas isn’t just a celebration—it’s a challenge. It’s God stepping into history to say, “Here’s what’s true, here’s what matters.” It’s an invitation to leave behind the mess, embrace healing, and leap into a life of freedom and joy with Him.
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Why Nations Rise and Fall
The Glory of God is not a fleeting light; it is the weight that sets the world right. Systems built on greed and oppression will crumble, but those shaped by justice, mercy, and compassion endure. In every act of fairness and care, we reflect His Glory into a broken world
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Should Christians tithe?
Our church is raising funds to repair some chairs, which are badly in need of it. The different responses to the need got me thinking, so I wrote about it in our church newsletter and thought I’d re-post it here along with the video I did about tithing a while ago. I was encouraged and challenged when I heard in yesterday’s executive meeting that our Nepalese congregation had raised enough money to restore 43 chairs at Lenah Valley. Last I heard, the Aussie congregations had raised enough for 19. I was pondering the different levels of response. Part of it can be attributed to the fact that our Nepalese congregation…
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Porn is a cancer, robbing you of life.
While I am pleased to be able to say that porn hasn't had a hold over me for many years now, I am embarrassed to have to admit that I fell for something so stupid and directly opposed to my faith.
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Faith is the key to your willpower.
It seems to me the role of faith in the formation of willpower and emotional health is one of the strongest arguments against Atheism. Paul was right when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 1:24: "It is by faith you stand firm."
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If you want next year to be different meet people and read books that challenge your “normal”.
I am a different person because of the books I have read and the people I have been exposed to, but there are plenty of books and people who haven’t changed me. They are the ones who I only engaged with superficially and who didn’t challenge my "normal."
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