Someone needs to hear this today. I hear, from time to time, people saying that they have gone too far in sin for them to ever be able to return to God. This is a lie and totally dismisses who God is and how He saves. Today I want to look at a verse in the Bible that I had overlooked until now but it has a powerful message for anyone who thinks they can’t be saved. “And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s c

How can a fallen, flawed, broken, sinful person have a relationship with the exalted God? What does it take to be a believer and follower of Jesus? I want to go back to an ancient prophet writing in 722 BC for the answer. Micah 6 opens with a court scene and God bringing a charge against unfaithful Israel and warning of upcoming judgment with the mountains and the foundations of the earth called on as witnesses. Micah then outlines God’s faithful actions and Israel’s unfaithf

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16-18 NKJV). God so loved the world. John used a word to describe humanity without God, the fallen world. It refers to a system that developed to cover our imperfections. It’s the root of the word ‘cosmetic’ – a system of adornment to cover our blemishes. So intense was God’s love for us sinners that He sent Jesus to get us out of

“Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works” (Tit. 2:13-14 NKJV). As I lie on the beach, listening to the waves and soaking in the sunshine, my mind turns to the oceanic Divine love that was made incarnate among us because God yearned for you. He didn't yearn for the you on your best

Almost daily our lives are changing under all the Covid mutations. One minute we are completely free of masks and the next we have to wear them even outside. One minute we can travel hither and thither and the next we are blocked from travelling to other states let alone other countries. In all this changing world, one feature has never changed — God, and who He is. Have a look at this section of the Bible that I was looking at this morning: 4 But God’s mercy is great, and he

Jesus came and kept the law in every respect so that He was said to be without sin. He was pure in mind and heart, yet the whole time He was on this earth He didn’t hang around the lovely, the good, the “holy” – he hung out with the worst of sinners, the “unimaginable and egregious” abusers of mankind (to use a phrase in today’s news). We aren’t pure yet we recoil in horror from such wicked characters yet here was Jesus being affectionate towards them, a “friend of sinners” (

The fact that God’s grace is crazy and unfair was brought home very strongly to me recently. I was in a conversation with a fellow student from my old high school. The conversation revolved around Australia’s most notorious serial killer and his turning up uninvited at parties and the yet unsolved crime of the suspicious disappearance of one of the girls from the school at the time the serial killer was living across the road from the school. We then talked about one of the s

Did you know that you don’t have to be educated or eloquent to be able to witness about Jesus? One of the greatest evangelists of all time was Charles Haddon Spurgeon and he was converted to Christ as a 15 year old on January 6, 1856 when he went into a little church to shelter from a snowstorm. The minister was unable to be there so an ignorant and illiterate man preached the text he had been given: “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 45:22). T

We live in a broken world. Sometimes the 'Happy Ever After' - the fulfillment of the promises - don't come on this physical earth. “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). Our faith is that we believe that He exists and rewards those who earnestly seek Him, clinging to our Deliverer without scripting our deliverance, without dictating what that reward looks like, be it a restored marriage, a prodigal's return, a heal

“From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ” (John 1/16-17). We were down at the beach yesterday teaching our grandchildren how to ride the waves with a boogie board. We showed them how the waves came in sets and to look out for the one that had enough energy to give them a good ride to the shore. Living the Christian life is like those wa