Perfection as a work in progress
"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining...
The beatific vision
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Matthew 5.8 Perhaps under the influence of the materialist culture we inhabit,...
A step too far
"May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the...
Iron Man
“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven..." Matthew 10.32 Nicknamed the "man of iron"...
True Israel
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah."...
Litmus test
“The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” John 6.29 Justin Martyr (c.100 - 165) emerges out of the post-apostolic era...
... in every way
"... in Christ you have been brought to fullness." Colossians 2.10 In addition to insisting that God did everything necessary for our...
In Christ
"For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself..." 2 Corinthians 5.19 Encountering the risen and glorified Jesus on the Road to...
Integrity of faith, life and scripture
"... keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Be merciful to those...
Practicing what we preach
"He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created." James 1.18 The Letter of...