Love, love, love This week someone put in our letterbox something you might call a Christian ‘tract’. On the front is says, ‘Father’s Love Letter – An intimate message from God to you’. Being a Christian myself, I am always interested to receive tracts or other communications sent to me impersonally. They provide me withContinue reading “Sunday News 12 October 2025”
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Sunday News 21 September 2025
One. ‘Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And theContinue reading “Sunday News 21 September 2025”
Sunday News 14 September 2025
Not of this world. Let’s get this straight. Jesus said: ‘My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.’ (John 18:36) The kingdom of our Lord Jesus ChristContinue reading “Sunday News 14 September 2025”
Sunday News 24 August 2025
Tokens In common usage, the term ‘token value’ describes something given to satisfy a requirement – to ‘tick a box’ you could say – without making any real, useful contribution. To make it look like something is being done or given, when actually nothing of real value is. ‘Token value’ means ‘little or no realContinue reading “Sunday News 24 August 2025”
Sunday News 3 August 2025
A staying. Some years ago my weekday routine involved a commute from my home on the Kapiti Coast to my work in Wellington City. I tried several different types of transport – train, bus, car-pooling and my own car. This was in the days before the new highway made car travel more reliable between WellingtonContinue reading “Sunday News 3 August 2025”
Sunday News 20 July 2025
Thoughts on blessing. Books have been written and teaching series dedicated to the subject of blessing in the Christian context, and I have no argument with that. To be blessed is such an all-encompassing state of wellbeing that it is difficult to think of any other subject of greater importance so far as our personalContinue reading “Sunday News 20 July 2025”
Sunday News 13 July 2025
In the paths of righteousness The world has appropriated many Biblical sayings, some along the lines of what appears to be intended in scripture, others variously misapplied or even taken to mean the opposite of what, from a viewpoint of faith, appears to be intended. An example might be the phrase, ‘a fall from grace’.Continue reading “Sunday News 13 July 2025”
Sunday News 6 July 2025
The wind, the chaff, and the tree. A friend asked me this week, ‘What kind of thoughts are good to think?’ My friend is not a believer in the sense that I am, so our conversations are wide ranging and often touch on spiritual subjects from quite different angles than might be expected in aContinue reading “Sunday News 6 July 2025”
Sunday News – 1 June 2025
Family of faith. This article is part two of my comments on the connection of Israel to non-Jewish believers, of which I am one. But before I proceed, I have something of a revision to make of some of my comments from last Sunday. In that article, describing the covenant God entered into with Abraham,Continue reading “Sunday News – 1 June 2025”
Sunday News 25 May 2025
In thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. For readers and believers of the whole Bible, these are momentous times. Headlines about Israel lead the news, and not for reasons which make any reasonable person glad. The right or wrong of Israel’s actions and the actions of others which have brought themContinue reading “Sunday News 25 May 2025”
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