Category: Spirituality

Cultivating inner strength through personal reflection and spiritual disciplines.

The Challenge

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of…

He is no fool

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Eliot

I need to write

  You write because there’s fire in your bones. You’ve got to do this whether anybody ever reads it or not. Eugene Peterson I need to write. Whether…

Transforming conflict

Conflict abounds in the modern world. We have made amazing technological advances. But humanity is still afflicted by arguments and wars, within families and between nations. Whether it’s…

Suffering and hope

Images of human suffering flood our consciousness with numbing regularity. We are constantly confronted with the fragility and apparent futility of much of the world’s experience of life.…

Sustaining hope

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of…

God our Father

Father’s Day is a time of mixed emotions. For many people it is an opportunity to honour and celebrate the gift of a loving father. For others it…