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My journey into Christianity

My journey into Christianity

“Holy holy”. This was a term I self-labelled people who went to church. Even more so, I recall giving this phrase jokingly as a nickname and having some chuckles with my non-religious friends then..

  • View: Blessed are the peacemakers

    I was watching The Project this week and they were talking about the history making event that was the meeting of Donald Trump, American President and Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader, who is probably one of the most feared men on the planet because of his access to nuclear weaponry.

  • Buying a house

    We found the one in 2016... beautiful pine wood walls, warm on a cold open-home day with a lovely fully-fenced garden. Facing the sun, three bedrooms, in our price range, good area... The wonderful list goes on and on.

  • Tradition, politics and other beliefs we add to the Bible

    C.S. Lewis points out in his intriguingly disturbing book, The Screwtape Letters, how easily neutral beliefs can be integrated into our faith. Patriotism and pacifism aren’t the only examples where this happens. Well-meaning Christians can easily fall into the trap of allowing personal beliefs – other than God’s Word – to become an absolute truth that they think is essential to being a Christian.

  • The meaning of life equals...death?

    I recently watched the Marvel movie Dr Strange, in which the title character begins as a self-important, famous, wealthy neurosurgeon and ends as a 'sorcerer supreme', whose job it is to protect planet Earth from dark powers from other dimensions, using magic.

  • Our problem with profit and entrepreneurship

    An entrepreneur is someone who takes risk to set up a business in the hope of making a profit. When we hear the word “profit” we sometimes put up our guard and hesitate due to the negative connotations that are sometimes associated with that word. In the media, films, and even in our discussions with each other, we sometimes characterise business people as “evil” and “greedy”.

  • Reflection: God is in the waiting

    When I was in Uganda recently, my friend told me a story about waiting. (Africans always seem to have a proverb up their sleeve, offering wisdom for every occasion in a delightfully simple and engaging way).

  • The day I saved Christmas

    A few years ago, I saved Christmas. Normally that would sound like a misleading headlines, designed to grab a reader in and then impress you with my wit as I try to explain what I really meant.

  • Dramas associated with telling others I a Christian

    I was serving Jesus on a short term mission last year. In this foreign land, I had shared my testimony, I had prayed for people, and had even proclaimed the Gospel.

  • Is Nostalgia a thing of the past, or the wave of the future?

    Right now there is big money in catering to people’s fond memories of the past. The amount of remakes of classic 80s movies we’ve seen, with plenty more to come, shows that studios and networks realise that the Generation X/Millennial market is a licence to print money—and they are the ones that go and see superhero movies that tap into their childhood heroes, actual children are just a nice bonus.

  • View: Too true of a line from one of our famous poems

    Dorothea MacKellar's 'My Country' is a timeless piece of poetry about Australia. She sums up in a few paragraphs everything about our country and what makes it so special.

  • You’ll never guess what I’ve been hiding…

    I have been hiding something from you all in recent days. And that’s because I’m confused and it’s complicated.