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When God is silent

When God is silent

Philip Yancy recounts in his book Disappointment with God the story of a young man called Richard. Richard had recently become a Christian and struck up a relationship with the author Yancy ....

  • Struggling to love and forgive

    Life can be a struggle at times. For instance, waking up at the crack of dawn on a cold, winter's day. Let's not forget the effort it takes to put on multiple layers of clothing before turning on the kettle for a cup of tea.

  • Life in the unrestrained pleasure-lane

    In case you haven't noticed, we live in a no-holds-barred, do-your-own-thing world. We have been force-fed on the thought that we exist to experience pleasure, that the pursuit of happiness and personal fulfillment should not be restrained.

  • “Let the little children come”

    As we get swept away into life, the older we get, the more we lose our childhood innocence and mourn the loss of that freedom. ... We envy the free-spirited nonchalance of a child as if we cannot obtain it ourselves.

  • You and I

    We're the same you and I, like two parallel lines that have coiled together.

  • "Christianity is a relationship, not a religion."

    It's a common catch cry among my generation of Christians of my generation; I know I grew up with it as a standard that I carried proudly. I think I even thought it was the thing or the idea that would mark myself, and the people around me, for the rest of my life.

  • 500 years of reformation

    I am a proud Protestant. And in the 500 years since a German monk nailed a long rant of theology on a church door, there's been a lot to be proud of.

  • Sex isn't my fault

    Why do you keep asking about boundaries? Picture this: God is sitting over here to the left. God is good. We like God. Now, the line between good and bad is lurking here on the right hand side.

  • Our target market is...

    Having been involved in the world of business prior to entering fulltime pastoral ministry, I’ve been involved in strategic planning processes in multiple diverse organisations.

  • Significance in Life

    A long time ago, and in a land very far away from here, there once lived a King. With a lot of time on his hands, and perplexed about the meaning of the life he had landed himself in, he embarked upon a quest to discover if an individual life could have any objective significance at all.

  • Le Tour de France: It's a team effort to win it

    As the days get darker in the southern hemisphere and the nights get colder there are a few things that light the soul. Sleeping in, hot coffee, chocolate and cycling. Like those middle aged men in lycra, those happy few who ride up the local mountains and bike lanes.

  • What do we really need?

    Veruca Salt, one of the not-so-sweet characters in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was famous for demanding whatever she wanted. Her indulgent parents didn't know what to do, especially when they couldn't comply.