I opened my Bible to 1 Timothy 3. I am supposed to lead a short devotional from this passage for our church leaders’ meeting next week. I intended to study all about “overseers”, their qualifications and their task. But I only got as far as verse 1! “Here is a trustworthy saying: if anyone sets […]
A few years back I was heading down to the Christchurch Polytech (CPIT) to lead a Bible study on one of the most famous parts of Jesus’ most famous speech. The passage was Matthew 7:1 – 6 in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says, ‘Do not judge, or you too will be judged’ […]
One of my (challenging and delightful) responsibilities in the just completed school term was to teach Christian Studies to a class of about twenty-five 15 and 16 year olds at a Christian School. Early on in the term, as an exercise to show the status of Christianity in New Zealand society, I divided up the […]
I have been watching some of the discussion around the passing of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill. And it did make me ask- why would you want to be a Christian, and especially a Christian who holds traditional biblical ideas about identity and marriage? To be honest, I have wondered that in despair […]
Did you notice this morning as you woke to a new day that everything was different here in New Zealand? Last night the New Zealand parliament voted to pass into law the Marriage Amendment Bill, making New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific to legalise same-sex marriage. We should […]
