Dwelling in God’s Word

by Helen Lockwood

A father’s kidney donation has saved his eight-year-old son’s life. The newspaper headline caught my eye. I knew the family. I had heard of their struggles and their strength.

by Pastor Timm Ebbs

The mother of a teenager in confirmation class asked to see me urgently. Her daughter wanted to talk with me. She was distraught. She courageously shared her struggle with sin. ‘

by Nick Schwarz

For Christians, the life and teachings of Jesus and the word of God we find in the Bible more generally are the most important sources of guidance on ethical matters.

by Adrian Kitson

When I was a young Christian in high school and university, I understood that Jesus died for me, and I was forgiven. Nothing could now separate me from the love of God. And yet it still seemed to me at the time that, having settled my salvation, God now gave me a new set of rules to obey.

by Adrian Kitson

‘It is better to burn out than fade away’, they say. Like a lot of people, I believed this in my younger days. I believed that I was called by God to be productive for family, for church and for the world.

by Pastor Tim Klein

Have you ever heard the expression: ‘She (or he) has the gift of discernment’? Perhaps you have been invited to a session of ‘discernment’ – to discern God’s will or purpose for a person or a congregation.