Does the story of the Wise Men in the Matthew's gospel, validate the idea that astrology is ok? It seems for some people they think it does, but reading the Bible story a bit closer helps us see it otherwise. The ‘Magi’ of Matthew 2:1 were wise...
Walking in the woods recently I spotted a tree with three stems. It was clearly one tree, but also sort of like three trees at the same time. Technically this would be called a 'multi-stem' tree, and its a common enough thing. Immediately I thought...
When the disciples asked Jesus 'how many times should I forgive?' they even suggested what seemed like a generous answer to their own question...
To be held in the highest esteem are those who live sacrificially for the sake of the gospel. Such people are found in the unlikeliest of places all over the world, including in a Western Queensland town called Blackall. It was our joy to take a...
God gets accused of many things. One of them is the idea that he forces people to either do what he wants, OR he sends them to Hell as punishment for not obeying. It's not a fair accusation, and comes when people don't understand what is...
Last week a commenter on our YouTube channel suggested we were wrong about Jesus being the Jewish Messiah, because whoever the Messiah was, they needed to do these six things. He said that Jesus failed because the only thing he did was the first. Be...
Doesn't Jesus' behaviour with the whip in the temple seem a bit out of character? Why would someone so caring, known for healing and forgiving, suddenly go kind of psycho? Well, sometimes a little more information changes everything. Here is some background information to do just...
Sometimes when you are talking about Jesus, people raise an objection to God's perceived fairness. 'What about all those people in the Congo jungle who never heard the gospel? Surely God isn't going to send them to Hell for not believing when they never had the...
Like many things in the Old Testament, they were a physical thing setup by God to help us get at (ie understand) a more complicated concept, which without the initial setup we would not have grasped. Indeed, even with the physical example to use as...
If God was the author of the Old Testament, and everything there is true and good, why did he send Jesus to change things and institute a new covenant, and with it the New Testament? It's a great question because it seems to suggest that God...
