Bible & Theology

The Jesus Way · Movement 3 · From Power to Servanthood The Reasonable Voice Most temptation, in my experience, doesn’t come dressed as evil. It comes dressed as a reasonable solution to a real problem. It comes wearing the language of stewardship, responsibility, and...

Simplicity Parenting: Raising Kids with Less Noise and More Grace Somewhere in the half-light before dawn, a parent sits at the kitchen table with a cooling cup of coffee and a list that already feels like a verdict. Permission slips. Snack rotations. The...

The Jesus Way · Movement 3 · From Power to Servanthood The Room That Stopped Breathing There are moments in life when the temperature of a room changes. You’ve been in them. The conversation has been flowing easily, jokes and small talk, the comfortable noise of...

The Jesus Way · Movement 3 · From Power to Servanthood The Request Imagine you’ve been following a teacher for three years. You’ve left your home, your family business, your entire previous life. You’ve watched him heal the sick and feed the hungry and silence the...

I’m on spiritual retreat at the Hermitage in Mittagong at the moment, reflecting on what 45 years of following Jesus and his Way have taught me about faith and discipleship. Here’s some of what those years have taught me. Maybe it’ll encourage others on the Way. 1....

The Jesus Way · Movement 2 · From Competition to Compassion The Debt You’ve Forgotten There’s a moment, possibly many years ago now, when someone let you off the hook. Maybe you were a teenager and you did something that should’ve had serious consequences, and a...

The Jesus Way · Movement 2 · From Competition to Compassion What Still Gets to You? There’s a question I’ve been asking people lately, in conversations over coffee, in small groups, in the quiet margins after church. It’s a simple question, but it tends to open...

The Jesus Way – A Special Easter Reflection (Luke 22–24; John 13; 19–20) The Story We Think We Know Every year it comes around. The palms, the prayers, the somber Friday, the lilies on Sunday morning. We know the sequence. We’ve heard the readings. Many of us could...

The Jesus Way · Movement 2 · From Competition to Compassion The Art of Looking Away You’ve done it. I’ve done it. We’ve all done it. Someone is sitting on the pavement outside the train station with a cardboard sign and a paper cup. You see them from twenty meters...

  There’s a center to all things, and it’s not us. In an age where the self is enthroned and every voice declares its own truth, Christian faith makes a startling claim: that the true center of reality, of faith, of creation itself, isn’t an idea or a moral code, but...