Category: Christian
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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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1 | Grace in the Wilderness and For the Wilderness | Matthew 4: 1-11
I wonder: if you were asked what some of the challenges the Church faces in our context are, what would you say? The answer would depend a lot on our background and our desire for our own lives. We might say: declining numbers, a loss of tradition, a lack of confidence, among other things. Then,…
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5 | From the Mountain to the Ordinary (1 Peter 1:22-25)
There is something about the mountain top, the beauty of getting there after a long hike, and looking around and suddenly the breathlessness of the couple of hours it took to get to that moment feels a lot less, and the world seems a lot smaller as you look out across the views, and it…
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The Wisdom of Worship: The Ark, the Temple, and the Joy of God’s Presence (1 Kings 81:-11)
Introduction It seems that one day, King David was sitting in the comfort and beauty of his Palace, surrounded by the splendour of Jerusalem, protected by her walls; it suddenly dawned on the King that while he was sitting in the splendour and comfort of his palace, the Ark of the Covenant – that Symbolised…
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Exploring the Significance of Rest and Compassion and the Opportunities of Interruption (Mark 630-34)
Introduction Mark’s Gospel is rapid; he wastes no time with unnecessary words or extra details for the main point of each passage and the overarching point of the entire Gospel – The Kingdom of God’s inauguration has begun in the person of Jesus Christ. Make waste no time on detail because he is trying to…
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Cast It All Upon Him (Psalm 55)
It would be difficult to process everything that has happened in the last six months alone; Christmas was not that long ago, yet we have seen rushes on the forecourts as we thought we might run out of fuel for the car! Never mind the rapid increase in Gas, rising costs of living, all then…
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Atr Irwin 