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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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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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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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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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Books I read in 2025
This year’s reading traced a clear thread—from the person of Jesus, to the life of the church, to the cultural forces shaping our shared reality. These books challenged easy assumptions, deepened discipleship, and helped name the moment we are living in, with clarity, humility, and hope.
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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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It’s Not About You: Living the True Story of Jesus
We don’t find life by adding Jesus to our story—we find it by surrendering to His. The gospel isn’t about self-help or personal fulfillment. It’s about Jesus as Lord. When we root our lives in Him, we’re set free from false promises and finally discover who we were made to be.
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Steve Jobs may have had a bigger impact on the spiritual formation of a generation than any other person in the last 50 years.
As we see the impact of the i-devices on our society I am starting to wonder whether Steve Jobs may have had a bigger impact on the spiritual formation of a generation than any other person in the last 50 years. I used to joke that Jobs was the Anti-Christ, an image he did little to dispel by pricing the Apple 1 at $666.66 and shaping an apple logo with a bite out of it. Of course, I was never serious. I fondly remember the day I saw the unveiling of the iPhone, and then the iPad. I was fascinated and excited by this new and seemingly magical technology. While…
