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...
There has been much said about the idea of sonship. The biblical language concerning sonship is almost exclusively ‘father’ and ‘son’. Concerning God and Christ, this must never be changed, but in the church there has to be some understanding. In this modern era women...
Recently some people have questioned how spiritual the body is, but the Christian faith and the scriptures attest that the body, that is our bodies, are in fact spiritual and important. The human body has a hugely important and central role, both in Christ’s life...
For many years now we have heard much talk in the media about climate change, sometimes called global warming. Not everyone agrees that the climate is changing, and those who agree are split on whether its caused by humans, or a natural phenomena. This blog...
It is common for teachers or child supervisors to select two children, who are “chosen” to be the captains of two teams. Those two children feel special at having been chosen, and then they proceed to select their teams based on what is best for...
