There are four major events in the Christian calendar: Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost. We are all familiar with Christmas, Easter and Pentecost, but the Ascension is another question. Christmas we get, Easter we get, and Pentecost we get, but the Ascension? Is that just for theologians? Does it really matter? The fact is the ascension … Continue reading The Ascension – the forgotten event
Category: Gospel
Christmas, Good Friday & Easter Sunday
A few months ago we celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus. It all seems so happy and joyful, full of so much promise, then we arrived at Good Friday and everything seems to be going in the wrong direction. It's like it wasn't meant to end like this. Jesus had gone about doing good, healing … Continue reading Christmas, Good Friday & Easter Sunday
Men from the East means Good News for all – A Story with an Unexpected Twist!
Richard BurgessI love the Christmas story, it is the most amazing story ever enacted in human history. It speaks of God’s great love for a fallen and broken humanity. How, this God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, this loving community of being, brought about our salvation and reconciliation through the incarnation of Jesus, … Continue reading Men from the East means Good News for all – A Story with an Unexpected Twist!
God, gods, or no god – What do you believe, and does it really matter?
Everybody believes in something, whether they are aware of it or not. Every one of us has a world view, a belief system of some sort, thought-out, imposed, or fallen into. And what we believe affects the way we do life. Not only that, what you believe has eternal consequences, repurcussions beyond this life. Therefore … Continue reading God, gods, or no god – What do you believe, and does it really matter?
Practical Discipleship
Discipleship is the latest buzzword in Christian circles. Discipleship though goes right back to Jesus and his calling of the twelve, his teaching and equipping of them, right through to his commissioning of them to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations. Several years ago I wrote a book based on … Continue reading Practical Discipleship
The Word 4 Life 