Person of Peace – the gospel spreads to europe

In Acts 16, we have the apostle Paul leading a team for the first time to disciple believers in their faith and to disciple unbelievers to faith. One night, Paul received a vision from God of a man begging him to come over to Macedonia (vs 9). This encounter led Paul...

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...

Journey to the cross

…And so, we reach the first Sunday in Lent. But what does it mean to the average Baptist? Does Lent have a place in our worship of Jesus? We Baptists don’t usually take Lent seriously. As a child, I saw it as something Roman Catholics and Anglicans did, often...

When following jesus feels like a juggling act

finances, friendships, church, rest, health — we’re trying to keep a lot of balls in the air. And if we’re honest, we drop them… sometimes or often.  Many of us would say, “I’m a Christian”, but always feel like we are not meeting this “standard”. We love...

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...