The Gospel is good news for our relationships. It’s good news for our relationship with the Father, with each other and with non-Christians.

Keeping our faith switched on is taught in Mark 11:22-24. It’s precisely how God uses faith.

The amazing thing about Rosaria’s saving testimony was that for a decade, Rosaria was ‘hidden in plain sight’, from the Christians in her community. Christians saw her as the ‘enemy’. Except for one elderly Presbyterian minister, who treated her as a loved and valued human being.

The knowledge of God’s call on our life has the potential to transform our lives from an ordinary one to an extraordinary life of joy and purpose.

In the early days of the second Gulf War, a young US private named Jessica Lynch was captured by the Iraqi military.  Most of her squad died in the roadside ambush. The initial reports were that she put up a valiant fight, been shot a couple of times and suffered some severe wounds.

Hosea had been betrayed by his wife, Gomer. He had obeyed God and chosen a wife who was a harlot. For a while, things seemed to go well. However, Gomer’s past gradually returned to haunt her.

The great tragedy is that we can have a ‘head knowledge’ of God’s love for us, but emotional scars and patterns of hurt keep us from living and experiencing the depths of His love.

In John 13, Jesus made one of his most potent demonstrations of how Christians are to love each other when he washed the disciple’s feet. Jesus was demonstrating humility. However, there was much more to Jesus' actions than just a lesson on servanthood. 

In spite of what popular culture says, people don’t just wake up one day and fall out of love. We can fall out of trees, or fall off a ladder, but we can’t fall out of love.

Who’s glad that God never gave up on them?  I sure am. God puts up with a whole bunch of mess from us and still keeps on loving us.

The retelling of one particular event in Jesus' ministry reveals some of the tell-tale signs of that raw, often unrefined trust, that throws caution to the wind and realises the potential of God's power. 

We always have such hope in Jesus.  No matter what circumstances we may be facing, whether big or small, Jesus is our victory.

Everything Jesus did on the earth was to show us the Father’s heart towards us. Every healing miracle, every provision miracle, the way Jesus treated people, every deliverance, and of course, dying on the cross was all a demonstration of God’s heart towards humanity.

It is one thing to talk about forgiveness; it is another thing entirely to forgive. For the number of lessons we hear on the act of forgiving, it still seems too often that the proper way to do it can be difficult to express. What does it mean to forgive, practically? 

There is something about stories of forgiveness that strike a chord in our hearts. Didier's story is one like this. 

Didier, from Columbia, was eleven years old when his mother was shot dead in a hail of bullets as he watched helplessly.

God is in the business of restoring relationships. It is the number one mission of the Holy Spirit and the greatest miracle we can experience.

Relationship is the central theme of Bible, our relationship with God and our relationships with each other.

So… someone you barely know comes up to you and says, “I believe God wants me to give you a word…” and then proceeds to tell you about what God wants for your life…