(The below is a summary of a summary by Chuck Colson from the book How Now Shall We Live? in which he assessed the benefits and weaknesses of religious beliefs on human behaviour, and against...
In Part I we discussed the necessity of good works to accompany salvation. While we are saved by God’s grace, through faith, we are saved for good works, and if the latter does not follow...
Is our salvation as secure as the modern Church believes it to be? I wrote this reflection to myself some time ago, after visiting a Church and feeling uncomfortable with the 'soft' message I heard from...
This past week I drafted a booklet on faith attrition among our young. The week before I was very pleased to complete a first ‘Great Commission Series’, which is intended as a preaching resources for...
General William Booth said these words. “What is your duty here? Oh that you realized your true business in this region of death! Having eyes, oh that you could see! Having ears, oh that you could...
After many months of thought, preparation and transitions, we are finally at our ‘destination’. in NZ In a new city, and a home of our own (our first family home) With a new (third) son (less than 2...
In That Leaders Might Last, chapter ten, there is a chapter titled ‘A Courageous Love’. In it I wrote of the confrontational nature of Jesus, fearlessly causing trouble in a great many places - all...
It may be that no one actually reads this - but here are some thoughts on a few utopian ideologies, based off what I emailed to someone today. This may be a bit too heavy...
One of the core values of this ministry is that partnership is the way forward. This is simply to say that through working together we can accomplish more than were we to stay only in...
The great commission is to ‘go’ to ‘make disciples’ of people from all people groups on this planet (Matthew 28:18-20). Sometimes these two things (‘go’ and ‘make disciples’) are seen as the (a) ‘evangelism’ and...
That impossibilities do not exist is one of the core values of this ministry. What this means is that the projects that this ministry undertakes will not be determined by what has or has not...
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As I understand it, culture shock isn’t really a ‘shock’ like an electric shock. Rather it is that niggling ongoing adjustment to changes when there are a lot of them. Take for instance this morning. I...
In setting up this website I put a catch-phrase under the ministry’s name: Shining Lights.co - Helping the Church see afresh what a great ‘product‘ it has. It was suggested by some that the use...
The world has changed, and in particular the way people think (as summarised in the previous blog on this topic by Dr David Geisler). For us, as Christian believers, this is effecting how we share...
(Pic: Jon, Ethan and friend Janelle - in a ‘playground’ helicopter) After about eight and a half years in Singapore, today we return to NZ for a new chapter in our lives. As I awake (miraculously...
One of the core values of this ministry is a recognition of the need for pre-evangelism. The next two blogs are going to be on this. In the first I here insert a summary of...
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Yesterday was an exciting day for me. My first book was officially launched, being published by Campus Crusade for Christ, Singapore (and the place looked good, thanks to my wife, heather, plus the food good,...
As a brief addition to the previous blog, which addressed the ‘macro’ perspective of the five ‘offices’ discussed, I reflected that at a local Church level this has significance also (a brief reflection here only). If...