'AHHH I need to DO all these THINGS'
Invitations. Outreach. Evangelism. Chinese New Year. Events Week. Maybe your instinctive reaction is nervousness, excitement, or pre-emptive tiredness. Most of us know that we are called to share the Gospel with others... but it's hard. I'm not going to talk about all the reasons why we should be involved, but instead about something I heard recently:
"Even if you don't invite a single friend to anything (and don't even try to), God will not love you any less. Even if you c
Being Real Before God
I'd written several drafts covering various topics I thought would seem relevant or relatable to other Christians reading this — community, prayer, idolatry. But every time I tried to string 'Christianese' ideas with googled bible verses woven in, what materialised kept feeling impatient, contrived and disingenuous. I had no idea what I was getting at, and symptomatic of my prayers in recent weeks, I had nothing to say.
We don't talk about this often, somehow it seems tabo
God as our #1 priority
Last Sunday, StAG's sermon was on Mark 14:1-11. This passage described the scene prior to Jesus' betrayal, where "a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume" and "broke the jar and poured the perfume on [Jesus'] head" (v3). This act was rebuked by on-lookers, scolding the woman for wasting the equivalent of a year's wages. They reasoned that the money should have been "given to the poor". Defending the woman, Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with y
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