Once upon a time I lived in Townsville, North Queensland. My wife and I were thinking about using our money better — we decided we needed an ‘investment plan’ to secure our wealth and our future. So we went to an investment information seminar with Storm Financial, a local company specialising in wealth creation strategies. We’d… Continue reading A better investment plan
Reimagining Jesus
Evidence
Perhaps it’s the sense that there is overwhelming evidence for the truths at the centre of Christianity — and not necessarily the sort of evidence we’ve decided to accept as modern western thinkers.
A better vision
For many people the decision to follow Jesus is that seeing life the way he teaches people to see life makes better sense of the world — and produces better people and better communities. Christianity isn’t just a set of beliefs about facts (or fairy tales) that are disconnected from real life; it is a… Continue reading A better vision
Eternal and fleeting
Have you ever considered how small you are in the vastness of an infinite universe? How short your life is in the scheme of infinite time? It can be pretty confronting… especially if you’re trying to figure out where to find direction for life, or meaning, or satisfaction… We are so finite, so fleeting, while time and space… Continue reading Eternal and fleeting
Dangerous and Safe
There’s a famous scene in the story The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe where the kids ask if Aslan — C.S Lewis’s version of Jesus — is a ‘safe’ lion. The reply is ‘he’s not safe, but he is good’… is equally true about Jesus. Jesus is not simple domesticated figure from history who… Continue reading Dangerous and Safe
His story
Have you ever noticed that most ‘epic’ stories — from the ancient, to more recent super hero franchises — follow a predictable pattern? Have you ever wondered why? There’s a hero who is called to save the world, perhaps even born to save the world, they grow up and are trained to face this task… Continue reading His story
Abundant Life
Philosophers love pondering the question of the ‘flourishing’ human life; what it means to be ‘truly human’ and to live the good life. We want this. We crave it. It’s as natural as breathing. It’s a desire that’s in our bones; that shapes what we love and how we live. One of the most famous… Continue reading Abundant Life
Hope
Is it hope? The hope of life beyond death? The promise of immortality? The discovery of real life? Abundant life? The ‘flourishing’ life we were made for? Life that stretches beyond death and into eternity? This sounds crazy but it is exactly what Jesus promises — he talks about this promise as a gift of… Continue reading Hope
Good v Evil
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” — G.K Chesterton Have you ever pondered why so many of our stories — fictional, historical, and in the news — are framed as a battle of good v evil; with… Continue reading Good v Evil
Forgiveness and Mercy
Is it forgiveness and mercy? Is it that if there’s a God who orchestrated this life we live in this universe; who spread out the heavens and established the earth (Job 9); whose hands flung stars into space (Psalm 8); who unrolled the sky and its features ‘like a blanket’ (Psalm 104); who is also… Continue reading Forgiveness and Mercy