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The Great Banquet Part 2

The Great Banquet Part 2

I’m back. Sorry that took so long. I had to go cut some more logs as I had used up all the firewood..

  • The Heart

    Public discussion of much Protestant theology contains so many high-level intellectual ingredients one could lose the central message, that the critical component of becoming a Christian and living the life of a Christian, is the 'Heart'.

  • The armour of God: sword of the Spirit

    Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Ephesians chapter 6, verse 17)

  • Stuff goes on, stuff weighs down

    Busan. Despite its closeness to my parents’ hometown, it was a new place for all of us. We had never properly visited, let alone lived in this vibrant city in Korea. With excited and nervous hearts, the Kangs stepped into their new house with 146 boxes.

  • Loving diversity exactly as it comes

    I was recently at a Salvation Army event that happens every three years, bringing together people from all over New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, to join in fellowship, celebration, and vision casting for the future. I’ve been to plenty of these before and while they’re all fantastic, if we’re honest they’re also pretty similar.

  • Stumbling in my own shadow

     U2’s latest album, Songs of Experience, includes a song titled, “Get Out of Your Own Way”. While listening closely to the creative lyrics I realised how relevant this concept is to my own life let alone the people around me.

  • How do we respond to the Climate Debate?

    Climate Change, it’s all over the news, it’s all over social media, whether we like it or not we can’t escape it.

  • Yes, thinking time

    In the light recent public debate on the enormous benefits for the nation when political figures have 'thinking time', I asked this question, "Can parishioners give permission to their clergy to stop and think?"

  • Roadblocks

    I've been hitting a lot of roadblocks with my writing over the past few months. I would begin writing but the words weren’t making sense or even making it to the page. I’d get halfway through a piece or a thought and I’d want to change it or throw it out. I have kept finding myself hitting this roadblock and then giving up.

  • Love God, love yourself, love others

    The other night at my homegroup (aka a life group/connect group) we got talking about a lot of things. Among things, we talked about loving ourselves and others.

  • Auschwitz

    As a writer on ministry on Jewish issues and Israel, a qualified tour guide to the Holy Land with InnerFaith Travel and as the Australian cricket chaplain of 17 years, I was invited to Poland for this 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2005.

  • We Weren’t Made for Heaven (Part 3)

    Hitherto, we’ve explored one of the greatest misconceptions of our time, namely that a believer’s final destination is Heaven. This idea that God’s plan for his people is to spend eternity in a place called Heaven, where’ll enjoy an ethereal existence is so pervasive and influential, it’s nearly impossible to conceive of the Biblical alternative, namely a material existence on a renewed earth with an immortal and imperishable body.