Prayer and worship is a place where we understand God’s work in the world and experience his hold on us – even when our hold on God is frail. Psalm … Read more
Tag: Doubt
James 1:1-18. All Joy
Introducing James & James 1:1-18. What strikes readers in Melbourne today about the letter is how disciplined he expects the Christian life will be. There is no room for … Read more
Matthew 14.22-36. Shame & vulnerability
Brené Brown in 2010 spoke of how her research on vulnerability discovered that people who live in cities like Melbourne have lives marked by shame. Shame, she says, is more … Read more
1 John 1. Certainty
We seek, long for, fear and deny certainty all at once. But John wrote to uncertain churches facing uncertain times that they could be certain about God in Christ Jesus. … Read more