I never thought that I was a creative person. It just wasn’t in my personality. And then I read an article about schools that kept telling children to be creative while still colouring in neatly and accurately within the lines. The article explained that although we try to push our children to be creative using selective criteria, we are actually encouraging them and grading them to follow a rigid set of rules. Could this have been the environment in which I was educated?

Then it dawned on me that Jesus had a similar problem with the religious leaders of His day. It is possible that Jesus was the most …

“You are trusting God, but can God trust you?

These challenging words recently confronted me when listening to a message by Leith Anderson as he revealed some of our common misconceptions concerning how we have come to understand the ways of God. It was a timely message for me.
“God needs people He can trust when they find themselves in circumstances they would not of themselves choose. He has an abundance of volunteers who are willing to live good and purposeful lives that have prestige and money and fame and an impressive partner and who can take success without being arrogant and self-seeking. But who can He trust to have …

The Scottish evangelist and teacher, Oswald Chambers, wrote.
“No Christian makes much progress in the Christian life until they realise that life is more chaotic and tragic than orderly.”
Ever since the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden, these words of Oswald Chambers have helped to define the world in which we have been called to live and serve.

The purpose of this paper is to understand how we might live out our calling as leaders in a world of chaos and tragedy, in a second choice world, that Paul described in his letter to the Romans in chapter 8.
“Yet what we suffer now is nothing …