Spiritual Formation and Immaturity: on the folly of biblical certainty
Gregory of Nyssa was a brilliant theologian, who among other things contributed to the development of the Nicene Creed. He…
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The Hunger Games Trilogy–a primer on non-violence
The Hunger Games trilogy is quite a read. If you saw the film and enjoyed it, the books are more…
How do we Educate? Preach? Teach? Form?
If you have any interest in education, training or personal/spiritual formation, do yourself a favour and watch this. It’ll be…
The Dark Characters at Communion
The last supper accounts in Matthew, Mark and Luke are an interesting collection of events and anything but the pious…
Songs of Praise & Worship
The following was offered as a reflection at Wall-2-Wall, a contemporary worship event at my home church. **************************** Some years…
A Forgotten Memorial – Prescience
“I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be…
A Forgotten Memorial – The Poor
“The poor you will always have among you” (v7) Is this Jesus’ aspiration for the servant posture of the church?…
A Forgotten Memorial – Communion
Notice in Mark’s account of the Last Supper there is no ‘do this in remembrance of me’ (v22-25). These words…
A Forgotten Memorial – Predators & Servants
The story moves between predators and servants. Religious leaders (v1,2) seeking to prey on Jesus. The friends of Jesus who…
A Forgotten Memorial – Seeing
Seeing. What is seen in the story depends on what you are looking for. Leaders: A way to remove the…