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September 2024

September 07, 2024

What is ‘Original Sin’?

I recently asked friends on social media what they believe about ‘original sin’ and got...

July 2024

July 28, 2024

Difficult Conversations Are Part of Healing

When someone hurts us, the most complete expression of mercy has at least two moving...

June 2024

June 25, 2024

Who Gets to Sit on Jesus’ Right and Left?

Those of us who were brought up in church and later started thinking for ourselves...

April 2024

April 25, 2024

Releasing Ourselves From Ego

Over the course of our lives, we are exposed to damage that can result in...

April 21, 2024

Less of Me and More of You?

I often look back on popular worship songs and wince, seeing the harm inherent in...

March 2024

March 23, 2024

Is ‘Sin’ a List of Forbidden Activities?

Sin is such an emotionally laden term, associated with heaviness and accusation – the angry...

February 2024

February 15, 2024

Spiritual Discipline is Still Important

A person who’s been burned by legalism is likely to associate any talk of discipline...

February 03, 2024

Being Kind to Our Younger Selves

When I look back at some of the dumb stuff I’ve said and done in...

January 2024

January 05, 2024

God’s Favourite Track on His Favourite Album

I don’t usually write about personal times of prayer but want to share an experience...

August 2023

August 26, 2023

Nurturing a Sense of Self

Self is an interesting concept from a Christian point of view. On the one hand,...

November 2022

November 13, 2022

Exercises in self-value part 2 – breaking free from conditions of worth

How do we determine our worth? The world has an ugly method, describing a person’s...

November 03, 2022

Break free from self-imposed limitations

There are always people willing to tell you not to dream. Many of these people...

May 2022

May 01, 2022

Why Believe?

At the age of twenty I had a decision to make. I’d reached the end...

March 2022

March 18, 2022

The Sin of Self-Judgement

In the first article of this series on judgement, I established several foundational ideas: ...

March 08, 2022

Rethinking Judgement

The Bible warns us about indulging in judgement, but why would that be? In my...

October 2021

October 06, 2021

Our Most Important Relationship Is Not With God

"Our Most Important Relationship Is Not With God" was stated to me by a wonderful, spiritual...