Wholly Holy

Read Reflect Uh uh. We tend to draw back when people start to tell us what to do, especially in the realms of inter-personal conduct and sexual behaviour. It’s all very well to believe in Jesus and love God, to go to church and say the occasional prayer, but…there’s more? We have to do something […]

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Whose Temple Is This, Anyway?

Read Reflect Your body is incredibly important to God – he made it, after all; Jesus redeemed it and the Holy Spirit lives within it. Consider the two powerful images presented here, and ask yourself how your treatment and use of your own body might change if the truth of them really got a hold […]

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Clean Hands and a Pure Heart

This passage pulls no punches. If we are called to do God’s work, we must do it with pure hearts and motives. Because if we lose that, we lose everything. And we can’t be successful outside of the Holy Spirit’s divine leading and power in our lives.

What’s “Holiness?”

The failures of ancient Israel brought dishonour on God’s name among other nations (v 22). In the same way the way we behave in Christian churches can add fuel to the attacks of atheists against God.

A Light to the Nations

I love my job as a youth worker because young people today are so inquisitive. They also ask some great questions like, ‘Hey Jonny, what’s the deal with God showing favoritism and picking only a select few?”

We are Made Holy

“We all have our faults. I’m not perfect – far from it.”

We all have heard statements like that. I’ve said just that on more than one occasion. I can even quote scripture to back me up. “All of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory” (Romans 3:23).