Category: Bible Reflection
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5 | “If Your Presence Does Not Go With Us” | Exodus 33:12–23
It is always a great privilege to go to different parts of the global church and experience all that is normal there but new to us. But the greater privilege is to hear what God is doing and how his people are being faithful in the midst of it. It is one of the highlights…
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Hands To The Plough (Luke 9:75-62)
1. A Journey (Introduction) Movement shapes so much of our lives, even when we don’t notice it. We are always moving, and how we move shapes how we see the world. In the world today, we can travel the same distance but see radically different things: to walk a mile is to have time to…
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Who Shall Save Us? (Exodus 1)
Faithfulness Forgotten (Introduction) One of the great ironies of a church building is the plaque that hangs on our walls, often to tell the story of some great effort in war or the local community; yet, as we read of it in the years that have passed, we know very little of the person or…
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More Than a Crowd: Gospel Love without Human Pretence (Romans 12:9-16)
1 How the Gospel Shaped (Introduction) The other night, we were out for dinner, and our waiter had one of those international accents, and after a while, we got talking. She started to talk about this city that she had moved to and now called home, and how it easy it was for her to…
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Underneath the Mango Tree (Acts 2:42-47)
Simple Faith: Under the Mango Tree I remember hearing about a small Christian Church that was gathering under a mango tree. They meet there faithfully every Sunday as their minister gathers them for worship, and the children meet under a different tree just on the other side of the same plot of land. When it…
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Who Are You Looking For? ( John 20:1–18)
If you could pick one word to describe our world, what would it be? Many options come to mind—purpose, identity, politics, tribe. You could make a case for any of these as defining our present moment or how we relate to the world. But none fully capture it. As I reflected on this passage for…
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