It has been interesting following one of the conversations over at the Aotearoa (NZ) blog Not PC, run by Peter Creswell. It seems that Peter has a real and very understandable issue with Christianity and has used the controversy around Easter trading laws to vent that issue. Allow me to state right from the beginning that I am a Christian who believes in the life of Jesus as God in human form, the crucifixion and [...]

In the lead up to Easter we have been putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions are also available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and have been played on New Zealand’s Rhema. On the day Jesus was crucified and in the trial leading up to that event we see the biggest blow that could have possibly been dealt to evil, we saw the defeat of evil. Though evil [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. The beginning chapters of Genesis make a profound statement about humanity, declaring that we were made in the image of God himself. There are lots of academic discussions about what exactly that means, but all [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. Do you ever give much thought to where the things you purchase come from? Have you ever wondered what the chain of people and production looks like from the very collection of the fabric in [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. During a very short time I spent in India, I had a chance to sit in a room in a slum with some people suffering from tuberculosis and a young polio sufferer. While I sat [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In his letter to the church in Galatia, Paul gives us two opposing lists, they are in chapter 5 of that letter. One list gives us the fruit of a corrupt human life running amuck, [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. Often we focus on the divine nature of Jesus – he’s the King, God incarnate, the risen saviour, the divine majesty. This picture is true and great, but there’s another picture of Jesus as well [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. Often people hurt us and relationships break because someone lets us down – for me it was the father who left me and my mother when I was a baby. We often have a tendency [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In the gospel of Luke, chapter 15, there is a famous story about two brothers and their father. One brother takes his inheritance early and goes off, wasting his money on prostitutes and hard living [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In his letters and papers that he wrote in prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest theologians of last century, put forward an outline for a book. In the outline for the second chapter he [...]