Sunahan and Kahalek, two of the 35,000 Yali people of Central New Guinea, stopped their search for sweet potatoes, dropped their digging sticks and ran. An arrow whizzed past them. The target? A meal of human flesh for Heluk River cannibals. Rather than head for the safety of … [Read more...] about A City of Refuge
Doing What Jesus Would Do
In Ephesians 5:1-2, the Apostle Paul urges the church to be imitators of God. Specifically, Paul calls us to walk in the same kind of love that Jesus walked. The kind that leads us to offer ourselves up to God for the sake of others (cf. John 13:34). This kind of imitation is … [Read more...] about Doing What Jesus Would Do
With Simplicity of Heart
The Christian Faith is not a complicated faith. Repent of your sin – the sin of unbelief. The sin of hypocrisy, the sin of idolatry in all it's forms... and believe the Gospel. Believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead and in doing so brought the Kingdom of God to earth … [Read more...] about With Simplicity of Heart
Clean as a Whistle
Washing is an integral part of worship. Most cultures recognise purification rituals of some kind. Even atheists take a bath and wash their Renault's. Washing is an admission of dirt, of some kind of uncleanness and expresses our desire to be free from it. In Luke with have … [Read more...] about Clean as a Whistle
Skin Deep
The concept of racism is a modern concept and foreign to scripture. The word itself didn't appear in the English language until 1902 and in French around 1890. Historically, the word, 'race' has been singular, referring to the human race, and there is no evidence for the … [Read more...] about Skin Deep