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I returned over the weekend from a three-day national conference of the Assemblies of God in Great Britain. It was such an exciting and blessed time in the presence of the Lord.

Prior to attending this conference, I was not in a good place emotionally. My family had gone through back-to-back losses in the last couple of months and quite recently, a business relationship came to an abrupt end. As if that were not enough, I got discouraged by some things that happened in church, things...

There have been times in my life when I felt completely alone. Interestingly, the feeling of being alone does not necessarily mean that there is no one around you; you could be in the midst of a crowd and still feel utterly alone.

I remember a period in my life as a young Christian when I felt that way. I would go to church and see people chatting and laughing with one another before or after the service, while I stood on the margins, more or less as a bystander.

As I grew in...

There are many characters in the Bible noted for doing remarkable things that even God Himself recognised, but only one man did God describe in these terms: "I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will." (Acts 13:22, Psalm 89:20, 1 Samuel 13:14)

If we step back in biblical history to before God made that statement, we find that unlike other nations, Israel had no king. They were led by prophets who served as mediators between God as King and...

There is no week in all of human history quite like it. It begins with crowds lining the streets, waving palm branches and shouting praises. It ends with an empty tomb and a world turned upside down. In between, there is a last supper eaten in the shadow of betrayal, a garden soaked in anguish, a series of unjust trials conducted through the night, a cross raised on a hill outside Jerusalem, and a silence on Saturday so heavy that the disciples must have felt the world had ended. We call it...

One of the most profound characteristics attributed to God is His faithfulness. The writer of Lamentations, composing his words in the depths of grief and national ruin, paused to declare something extraordinary: "The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23). What makes this declaration so striking is its context . It was written amid devastation, not comfort. Yet even...

"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"  (John 14:6)

We live in an age that celebrates options. From the food we eat to the way we work, choice is considered not just a convenience but a right. It is no surprise, then, that this culture of endless options has seeped into our understanding of spirituality. The prevailing wisdom of our time is that all roads lead to God,  that sincerity of belief...

One of the greatest challenges we face in life is the feeling of 'not knowing'. We are limited in our ability to know the future, and this sense of uncertainty can be a source of fear, worry and anxiety. When we journey through uncharted routes, we often don't get answers upfront. We have one of two options: either go back to the familiar or push forward into the unknown.

In Genesis 12:1-9, God called Abram to leave his country, his people, and his father's household to go to a land...

One of my favourite subjects in secondary school was economics. I remember being intrigued by the way the prices of products are determined by the law of supply and demand. The law states that the higher the price of a product or service, the lower the demand. On the other hand, the law of supply states that the higher the price of a product or service, the more incentive suppliers have to produce more. Of course these laws assume all other factors remain constant, in Latin, • ceteris...

I'm often fascinated by the worldwide gatherings as midnight strikes on New Year's Eve, watching countries from New York to Auckland, China to the United Kingdom light up their skies with fireworks, each seemingly trying to outdo one another in spectacle. 

Whilst many of those celebrating simply want to party their way into the new year, I believe there's something deeper at work. Fundamentally, there's a sense of relief that the current year has ended with all its challenges,...

Christmas for me is always a time of reflecting on God's unfailing promises. The Bible is full of many promises from God, and the first recorded promise doesn't really look like one at first glance: "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel" (Genesis 3:15).

This statement was directed to Satan as a curse, but it was also a promise to mankind that a Saviour would be born who would deal a...