Inclusion Gone Mad

Last week I came across a clip of a pastor delivering an invitation to Holy Communion. Pointing to the elements, he announced: “This table right there is not my table…it is God’s table and that means everyone is welcome to that table. *You do not have to believe what...

The Sacred Call of Hospitality

“…I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some” (1 Corinthians 9:22 – ESV). We see Paul’s wise approach to how he discipled people to faith on display in the manner he engaged the Greeks in Areopagus in Acts 17 (check out Peter Francis’s...

Christ’s Compassion That Moves Us To Action

(Matthew 9:35-38) In his gospel, Matthew gives us a snapshot of Jesus in ministry. He travelled through towns and villages, teaching in synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, healing every disease and sickness. But Matthew doesn’t stop at...

“Every man dies, not every man truly lives”

The title is a line from William Wallace in the 1995 film, ‘Brave Heart’. The late Dr Edward Stieglitz, an expert on high blood pressure, geriatric medicine and a leading authority on old age and its problems said something similar, “In the end, it’s not the years in...

Loving and engaging people as Jesus sees them 

The struggle for most of us isn’t whether we should talk to people about Jesus but how. We picture sharing our faith as a memorised script we deliver, a performance we are more than likely to make a mess of and so we say nothing at all. However, Pippert in her book,...