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The Gateway to Worship

The Gateway to Worship

We all dedicate our lives to worship. Regardless of our professed spirituality, or lack of, our behaviours point to our object of worship..

  • Tired of Church

    Tired of church? Don’t go. Watch online, hang out with some Christian friends, watch a YouTube sermon. These three options have always been present to us as an alternative to in-person church attendance.

  • Prophecy and Property

    “Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.” (Isaiah chapter 5, verse 8).

  • Gold-mining and honey-drinking

    Just like a lot of other Christians, one of my new year resolution is to read the Bible back to front.

  • 2021 can be different: Here’s how

    Each annual turn of clocks and calendars to 12:00am on 1st January can feel like a fresh start, a new opportunity for many people.

  • The hall came tumbling down

    Our old church hall had been standing in place for close to 100 years. Once a place of honour, now it sat abandoned and dilapidated, a faded echo of its vibrant past. There were rumours that the only thing holding the hall together were the termites holding hands.

  • I choose this… or that; still God chose

    Choices aren’t easy. I, for one, am not good at making decisions. To choose this or to choose that? There are pros of both choices and cons of both choices. What then should be our guideline for choosing?

  • Serving with Martha, sitting with Mary

    What is it about the end of the year that seems to bring the best or the worst out of us? I often find myself scrambling to cross out things to do all the way up to Christmas and then crash for many days after.

  • Growth. It’s in your hands.

    Like most of you, I’m quite excited to see in a New Year. With all the craziness and change that 2020 brought to my life, waving goodbye to a year like no other feels different to any of the previous 50 New Years I have seen – admittedly I confess I cannot remember the first ten or so!

  • The risky business of nativity plays

    One of my favourite nativity plays has no shepherds, no angels, no Mary or Joseph and no wise men.

  • Post-2020 disorder: Surviving the demise of our sanity

    The layered experiences of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) were heavy for me.

  • The uncomfortableness of Christmas

    This year Christmas may be uncomfortable, depending on where you live in the world.