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When following Jesus has to wait
We can genuinely want to follow Jesus while keeping the things that make us feel secure under our own control. Haggai invites us to give careful thought to our ways.
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Do You See This Person? Learning to Love Your Neighbour
Jesus asked Simon, “Do you see this woman?” It’s a question that challenges our fears, our assumptions and even the way we help. Loving our neighbours means seeing beyond their labels—and allowing them to love us too.
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The Church as a Community of Truth: Learning to Discern Together
Many Christians know the Bible well but still struggle to recognise God’s wisdom in everyday life. This article explores why the church exists not simply to teach truth, but to become a community where believers learn to discern, embody, and live God’s truth together.
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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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What Does It REALLY Mean to Live With Hope?
We live in a world that tells us to trust ourselves, follow our feelings, and create our own truth. Peter offers a very different vision. Real hope begins with repentance, grows through the work of the Holy Spirit, and becomes visible through lives that love and suffer differently. What if hope is not simply something we believe, but something we live?
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The Church as a Community of Truth: How We Learn to See Together
We’ve never had more access to truth—and yet less clarity about what is true. What if the issue isn’t just what we believe, but how we learn to see? This post explores why the church must become a community of truth, discerning and following Jesus together.
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Why Your Greatest Failure Isn’t the End of Your Story (Lessons from Peter)
Peter failed in his worst moment—but his story didn’t end there. Discover how Jesus meets him in his failure and asks the question that changes everything: “Do you love me?”
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Why Church Isn’t About You (And Why That’s Good News)
We’ve been taught that church exists to meet our needs. But the Bible paints a different picture. Church exists to shape us into people who love, grow, and live differently together. It’s not about what we get. It’s about who we become—and how that shows the world what God is like.
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Listening as Mercy: Why It Changes Everything
We never arrive neutrally. We carry assumptions, categories, and pictures of how things should be. But Jesus calls us beyond our assumptions and into mercy. And mercy begins with listening.
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The Way Requires Training
Following Jesus is not just about belief or good intentions. The New Testament describes Christianity as “the Way” — a lived pattern of life. Spiritual growth requires training, intentional practices, and daily alignment with the kingdom we have already been brought into by grace.
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Who Do You Trust? Jesus is the Light in the Darkness.
The world feels unstable. AI in government, protests in the streets, division everywhere. Who do you trust? The Bible shows us Jesus — the light in the darkness, the embodiment of God’s grace and truth. Trusting Him is the way to real life, even when the world feels uncertain.
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A Bigger Story: How the Real Gospel Changes Everything
The gospel is more than a quick fix for sin. It’s an invitation to live from a new foundation—God’s reality. These six levels of repentance help us name the tensions we carry and discover a better way to live, rooted in God’s truth, grace, and a vision of new creation.
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How to Change the World
When Paul entered Ephesus, he didn’t bring a strategy—he looked for what God was already doing. Acts 19–20 shows us how real change happens: by surrendering to Jesus, being open to the Holy Spirit, and confronting the idols of money, power, and control. That’s how churches—and cities—are transformed.
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What reality are you living from?
We don’t see the world as it is—we see it as we are. Unless Jesus interrupts our story, we live from beliefs shaped by fear, comfort, or culture. He invites us to repent, to replant our tree, and to find real life by rooting our whole selves in him.
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The Only Way Forward Is to Remember Who We Are
The future of the church won’t be found in preserving buildings or replicating past models—it will be found in recovering the heart that shaped them. Mary Ann Gibson’s faith, courage, and hospitality lit a fire in Tasmania. The question for us is: will we follow that same Spirit today?
