Person of Peace

Luke 10:1-7 If we are to make disciples as Jesus commands, it makes perfect sense that we take a leaf out of his book. That’s because his discipleship approach/model contains cross-generational truths which can be applied to our context and one of those truths we see...

The mission of god in the hands of ordinary people

In Matthew’s gospel, we have an account of Jesus going to towns and villages, teaching, preaching to everyone who will listen and healing every disease and sickness. As he looked out to the crowds, his heart broke and was filled with compassion for them, ‘because they...

More people more like jesus

A great line, isn’t it? I wish I came up with it but then I’d get a big head so just as well I didn’t! It’s a tagline from a church website and it encapsulates the core mission and vision of Christian discipleship. Jesus expressed it this way when he called his...

Jesus Our Living Hope

‘Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade…’ (1 Peter 1:4) In her...