“If We’re Sitting in Heavenly Places Why Doesn’t It Feel Like It?”

I love the first two chapters of Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians. It’s such a wonderful reminder of our perfect acceptance by God, They tells us about how God sees us as, even while we often struggle on this earth. Chapter 2:4–7 says that, …because of his great love for us, God, who is rich […]

People are like mirrors. We look at them and think that we see ourselves in what we see reflected back. If we see things like forgiveness and love, then we believe ourselves to be worthy of forgiveness and love. If, on the other hand, we see unforgiveness and rejection, then we believe ourselves to be […]

Get some rest! There was a time when the twelve disciples were completely exhausted. They had just returned from preaching in the villages and towns of Galilee, and they were trying to tell Jesus what they had experienced, but there were so many people that Jesus and the Twelve didn’t even have a chance to […]

The Bible doesn’t actually say that “money is the root of all evil,” although many people think it does. What the Bible actually says is the “the love of money is the root of all… evil” (1 Tim 6:10). And it is the root of all evil not just in society in general, but all […]

I want to talk to you about pain; not the kind that you can deal with by taking a tablet. I’m not talking about physical pain. I want to talk to you about the pain of the heart. It’s the kind of pain that sometimes you don’t even realise is there until one day you […]

I used to say, before I knew better, that I would be happy if I just made it into heaven as the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem were closing, and if were only just to squeeze through. But now I know that was a terrible thing to say! It reflects very poorly on our […]

It’s natural for us to want Jesus to just appear and heal our wounds and hurts instantaneously. But often, that’s not how Jesus works. When Jesus did mighty works and miracles while on earth, his healings were usually immediate and dramatic. But there is one miracle which he did that was different, and through it, […]

There are many things that are odd about the resurrection of Jesus, but then again there were many things that are odd about his ministry and his death. That’s because Jesus never seemed to do things the way other people expected him to. If I had been Jesus on that Sunday morning, I would have […]

How does Jesus see you when you’re down? You know how you see yourself: as alone, worthless, unloved and unlovable, and basically as a failure. But the important thing is not how you see yourself, but how Jesus sees you. Because if you can allow how Jesus sees you to become your reality, then you […]

The world really doesn’t have a definition for grace other than “smoothness and eloquence of movement.” Here is a beautiful Christian definition and description of grace: Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return… Grace is being loved when you are unlovable…. Grace is a love that has […]