When someone is looking for the “best” church to attend, it really depends on what their motive is. I have met people who are looking for a church that meets their needs. They want comfortable chairs, wonderful music, entertaining preaching, an air-conditioned facility, and great babysitting...
Most of us are familiar with bandwidth or data allowances. A phone provider might give you 10 Gigabytes of data for the month, and once it is used up, you have to wait until the month renewal date comes around, or buy more data. That...
One of the struggles that pastors, priests and church leaders have all around the world, is getting their people/parishioners to think beyond themselves. It’s not about them, but about what God is trying to do through them. Typical church attenders come because for them, it is...
For the last five or six years a strange thing has been happening to me. I regularly check the time on my phone, a clock or anywhere, and its 9:11. That number seems to really stand out. Someone suggested it was a case of confirmation...
The photo attached to this post gives a quick sense of what I want to say. Before us is something beautiful, wonderful and worth pursuing, but also significantly challenging. Should we look at what is ahead and think it is too difficult, and shrink back,...
In the last month, while travelling John Alley has started streaming his messages live to facebook. These are often messages and sermons that never make it onto the Peace website (here) or to the Peace app. However John has now started travelling with the equipment...
How do we know for sure that God is real? For those who know God, it’s a dumb question because it’s so obvious that he is real. God is everywhere, in everything. He is the air we breath, He fills the world with His love....
We all love reading the Bible, but sometimes as Christians we don’t understand it in the same way as each other. There are reasons for this of course, such as our culture, worldview, how we understand what the words we read mean, and more. One...
Over the last fifty years things have been changing amazingly in the Islamic World. This is the result of what has been labelled by some the “greatest prayer movement in the history of the world.” Some of the information in this post comes from the...
The book of Genesis is sometimes despised by people because of its origin stories. It has also been picked apart with suggestions that its not internally coherent, and wasn’t written by one person but by four. However the book of Genesis is a brilliant book, internally...
