Donald Miller in his book, Blue Like Jazz writes, “The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.” Rick Warren opened his best selling book, Purpose Driven Life with the words. “It’s not about you.” If we think life is just about us, then our story is […]

Douglas Coupland, in his book “Life After God” reflects on being part of the generation which grew up without God. Whilst previous generations might have grown up going to church and Sunday school, that was not Coupland’s experience. As a result of the widespread jettisoning of faith by the generation before him, there was a […]

There is something in the human psyche where we tend to label or categorise people. We decide who’s in and who’s out. We put people into boxes. We create barriers. The grand vision of the church is to be a new community, a family, which is no longer marked by the barriers we create. A […]

As we explore Ephesians 2: 1-10 together, we look at that which is bringing death to us, as well as the beautiful solution of God’s grace that restores us. One of the deadly environments we look at is what Paul refers to as “the world” and how we ought not follow “the ways of the […]

In Psychology there is a phenomenon known as the “mere-exposure effect.” It relates to the correlation between our familiarity with something and our preference for them. There is something in the human psyche where we find that which we are familiar with more likeable, and we are more likely to believe something which we have […]