This offensive question must be asked every time a natural disaster like the Christchurch earthquake, strikes and some thoughtless Christian states that God is punishing the city. A sweet little Christian girl happily claimed on the internet that the calamities in Japan were an answer to her prayers against Japanese atheists. Can she not see that if she were right, she would be an accessory to mass murder and her God – a baby killing [...]

I had a chance to chat with Aaron Ironside this morning on the Balanced Breakfast – the morning show on New Zealand’s Rhema. I have been asked to offer a reflection for the Insight slot on Wednesday mornings in the three weeks leading up to Christmas, so I have one to go next Wednesday morning. If you want to hear it, listen in at 7:40am. I thought I would take a chance here to expand [...]

Xmasitis is an epidemic disease that hits our society once a year around the start of December. Strangely our health authorities offer no medical response or official warning even though Xmasitis causes the most stressful, dangerous time of the year. Therefore it’s vital that each one of us learns to recognize the symptoms and takes measures to minimize the effects. The first symptom is an increasing sense of pressure. At work you scramble to finish [...]

In the lead up to (and during) 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. The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed! The resurrection of Jesus was an amazing new beginning. Evil had been defeated through the cross and death no longer held its sting. In the resurrection [...]

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. The death of Jesus represented a moment of confusion for the disciples and without the hindsight of the Resurrection; the time between these two events would have been confusing. They had seen the death and the [...]

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. On the night before Jesus was crucified he broke bread and drank wine with his disciples, using the bread and wine to represent the sacrifice he was to make, a sacrifice that would reconcile man [...]

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 account of Jesus entering the city of Jerusalem in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 21, we are given a dramatic story – Jesus enters the city on a humble donkey, is hailed as [...]

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. A recent Time article stated that in the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society – whether it’s General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball or the mainstream media – has revealed [...]