Philippians 4:6 calls us to be anxious for nothing, but with prayer and thanksgiving to bring everything to God and God’s peace will guard our hearts and minds. Robert Leighton suggests that we are lying to God in prayer if we don’t rely on him afterwards. Prayer is thus putting our faith in God. Paul…

Discipleship is our journey of following Jesus as our Lord. Discipling is part of this process. It’s helping others to do so, so that they become more like Christ. It’s investing in the spiritual well-being of others by participating in the work God has begun in them through Christ that will be brought to completion at…

You may remember how your parents trained you to say “thank you” whenever you received a gift as a child.  That’s because while gratitude is a choice, it also requires cultivation. In our fallen world, without cultivating a heart of gratitude, life can easily overwhelm or weary us with its tiring chores, difficult challenges, and…

Our Lord Jesus says in John 14:6 that He is the way, the truth and the life. He embodies not just the truth, but the truth of who God is. He is always faithful and true. In Him, love and justice meet. And He changes not. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His word…

Galatians 5:22-23 says the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. They are not some selectable traits but a single whole-person character that reflects Jesus in thoughts, attitudes, feelings, words, and behaviours. Paul certainly had the Lord Jesus in mind when he described these qualities. He distinguished…

The good news that God so loved the world that He sent us His Son calls for an appropriate response, a response of repentance and faith. Repentance and faith are different sides of the same coin. Repentance is turning from sin. Faith is turning to God. They are instruments through which God saves us through…

There is a longing in each of us to live a meaningful life. In his search for meaning, the Preacher had examined and experimented with life and came to this realisation in Eccl 2:10-11, “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labour,…

C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity says, “The whole purpose for which we exist is to be thus taken into the life of God.” But how are sinners like us ever able to love and trust God? The answer is found in the Gospel. The Lord Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago so…

Our prayer as our Discipleship Groups embark on the study of the Design for Discipleship Book 1 is that we may deepen our appreciation of the work of salvation by each person in the Godhead in our lives. This is because ours is a Trinitarian faith. Our discipleship involves working out what it means to…