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Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. 2 Corinthians 9:6  Christmas is a time of feasting, spending time with loved ones, and exchanging presents. For many, Christmas is a season marked with love, kindness and extravagant generosity. It’s a time where people become more...

The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.  Luke 2:20  This could be a controversial statement this close to Christmas, but I’m gonna say it:  Christmas Day is generally overrated. ‘Twixmas’ is better.  Twixmas runs from the 26th of December to the 1st of January,...

You can’t overshare. I was having a conversation with a friend recently talking about what it feels to be a student when going home for Christmas. We both remembered studying for the most part, even on Christmas day a couple of times! We discussed that feeling of not being fully present with all that information crammed into our brains and trying...

The Bible gives us some really helpful models of how to share the Gospel creatively. Let's start at the beginning of John’s Gospel to get started. In the first verse of John’s Gospel, he calls Jesus the ‘Word’. This might sound a bit odd. The word was a Greek philosophical concept for the eternal, unchanging truth that has existed since the creation...

“Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.” Luke 2:13-14  I was once in a Psychology lecture with 300 other students. Often I would lose concentration and start daydreaming, but on this particular day, I...

It is coming to the end of one of the strangest years we’ve ever lived in. Around this time of year a lot of people take time to pause and reflect on their accomplishments, learning curves and celebrations of the past 12 months. Instead of sharing my own revelations with you, I’d like to share some incredibly insightful reflections from...

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross,...