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The core relationship

The core relationship

According to the six degrees of separation theory, we could connect with people from all over the world through six people. The fact is that we are in various relationships with different people throughout our whole life..

  • Missing the Jesus in Front of Me

    On a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

  • Making a case for silence

    Have you ever studied or worked with music playing in your ears? You know you’re just trying to get in the zone and concentrate on something important by blocking out the background noise. You think that listening to music will help.

  • Safe sex

    Imagine a classroom of high school pupils and a teacher warning them about the dangers of smoking. Instead of explicitly instructing the children not to smoke cigarettes and stressing how smoking causes lung cancer, she gives the students packets of cigarettes that are low in nicotine and tar content.

  • Fighting abortion unmasked

    Just when we thought we had reached the very depths of inhumanity with New York’s Abortion Bill allowing abortion up to the moment of birth; western modern civilization has reached a newall-time low: the killing of new-born babies.

  • Troublesome people – in the church too

    This topic of perennial troublesome people sneaking through to key roles in church and mission life is as old as there are years and the issue on the one hand is what to do with them, and on the other, the nature of the issue pervades every area of life.

  • Questions & Responses 2  -  JUST OUT

    Reverend Dr Rowland Croucher the Pastor’s Pastor of 45 years says these Q&R series is an attempt to face the 50 top questions people ask to challenge clergy, counsellors and other Christian leaders.

  • The Secret of 100% Conversion Rate Revealed

    Sam Chan, seeing all three of his flat mates (also his medical student mates) become Christians within two years, is pretty impressive.

  • Faith and Fatigue

    Have you ever watched a child throw tantrum and whiny all as a result of tiredness? You may even hear the parent or babysitter say to the child that if they would just stop resisting being cradled and rocked then their agitation would dissolve.

  • Go and see the stars

    A few weeks ago, I went on a weekend trip to a small NZ town called ‘Mangakino’ located on the North Island.

  • My Argument Against Arguments

    “Darren my wife has summoned me to court, hit me with a restraining order and has kidnapped our children…this is the worst Christmas of my life.”

  • The Price of Greatness

    I’ve been challenged with my understanding of greatness. During my last visit to New Zealand, I was able to receive wise counsel from one of my spiritual fathers in the faith. Pointing to the scriptures, he was able to invoke deep introspection in regard to the biblical definition of greatness.