Fears and insecurities that have been part of our lives since we first experienced rejection limit our ability to comprehend the love of Christ. This love deficit brings about symptoms of sin and rejection that hinder our spiritual, emotional and physical well being.

Nike are lucky that intellectual property laws weren't around in the 1st century, because leading up to Jesus’ first public miracle, his mother spoke the now famous phrase- “Whatever Jesus says, JUST DO IT!”

As Christian’s we are called to grow into that full-flavoured aromatic, victorious loving Christian. When we walk into a room, or when we open our mouths, the sweet smell of victory in Jesus Christ overwhelms the stench of death!

It seems the need for justice and ‘fairness’ is one of our most basic human desires. People recoil from the idea that they have been treated unjustly. But who decides what is fair or just. Against what do we measure fairness?

It seems the need for justice and ‘fairness’ is one of our most basic human desires. People recoil from the idea that they have been treated unjustly. But who decides what is fair or just. Against what do we measure fairness?

Faithfulness is not merely what He does; faithfulness is who God is. It's His nature. We can't separate faithfulness from God. The entire world, nature, galaxies, oceans, people, are all dependant upon God's faithfulness. If He didn't keep His Word, the earth would cease to exist.

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.  It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you.

The Bible talks about God’s Holiness more than it talks about His power, His omnipotence or His omnipresence- combined.

How could I, being infinitesimally small on a scale of the universe, with my trivially small brain, that struggles to remember where I put the car keys, possibly hope to know and understand God?

How could I, being infinitesimally small on a scale of the universe, with my trivially small brain, that struggles to remember where I put the car keys, possibly hope to know and understand God?

Whatever the situation we're facing, or about to face, remember this, we are eternal optimists.

After intense persecution and after many Christians had fallen away, the Church was refined and later re-grouped and grew stronger. But so devastated were those who remained by the betrayal of their brethren that there was a great debate about whether they should be accepted back into the Church.