Wow! Just wow!

Have you ever read a real life story of welcoming a stranger that brought tears to your eyes?  As I was reading through our sermon series study book “Out of the Salt Shaker”, I was filled with emotion at one of the stories Pippert wrote. I share a portion of that...

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,...

Christ with us in our witness

Sharing our faith with our non-Christians is an indispensable part of our relationship with Jesus but for most of us, we would we quick to admit we are not doing enough of it. We find ourselves caught in an internal tug-of-war. Often the immediate solution that comes...

Keep the holes free

In the high humidity of the tropical Philippines we added uncooked rice grains to our saltshaker so the salt could shake out and not clump and clog up the holes. How do I relate this to me being salt in this world? I pray: Spirit of the Living God, draw me close and...

Jesus – fully human and fully Lord

At the heart of Christian theology lies the ‘Incarnation’ – the belief that Jesus Christ was fully human and fully God. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John...