Still sick, but healed

  • Lauren Driscoll
  • 6 November 2015

A few weeks ago I had an interesting encounter with an older religious lady on our university campus. She noticed that my eyes and skin were discoloured by jaundice, and once I had explained the cause (a rare genetic condition that I’ve had from birth), she was filled with pity and told me that she would pray to her God for my healing.

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Ideas That Changed the World

  • Dominic Steele
  • 23 February 2017

Four video studies on the big ideas and people of the Reformation.

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Contentment is hard

  • Lee Carter
  • 11 July 2018

Why is it so difficult to resist the urge to grumble? And why does it matter?

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Calling to ministry

  • Tim Grant
  • 3 July 2015

Regularly when I sit down with someone, they’ll use the phrase ‘called to ministry’. I don’t have a dislike of this phrase, it can be very useful—only when most people use it, it isn’t.

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A cloud of motivation

  • Ruth Baker
  • 16 June 2020

A cloud of perfect people might make me feel self-conscious. But a cloud of faithful witnesses who are just like me—that sustains me.

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Just do what I told you

  • Stephen Leston
  • 29 October 2013

When I was a boy, I had a weekly summer chore of mowing the lawn. My dad liked it done every Thursday. You would think that it would not be too difficult for me to get that task done—after all, I knew exactly what I needed to do and when

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Admonition or Affirmation? Do I have to choose?

  • Adrian Russell
  • 15 November 2013

These days the word love has kind of by default come to mean something like ‘affirmation’. To love someone or something necessarily means to approve every bit of them. To disagree with some aspect of their life or character means you must hate them, or be afraid of them. (Although,

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Hanging in There (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • John Dickson
  • 17 February 2015

Hanging in There is a book about God, you, the Bible, prayer, church, relationships, sex, feelings, doubts, love and, above all, 'hanging in there' as a Christian. If you're a young Christian (teenager to early twenties), new to the Christian faith or a long-serving Christian who could use some encouragement this book is for you. [ebook format]

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If I were God, I'd make myself clearer

  • John Dickson
  • 16 October 2009

This book by John Dickson considers the vast array of spiritual claims made by different religions and individuals and asks whether any clarity can be found.

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The startling truth behind Jesus’ words on the cross

  • Ruth Baker
  • 2 March 2020

Jesus famously cries out from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Why did he say this?

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