Reflections

13 November 2018

Don't Limit God

He builds this one around the moment in Luke 5 when Jesus tells Simon Peter — who has fished all night and caught nothing — to launch out again into the deep. Peter's answer is honest and human: we have toiled all night and taken nothing. He was so saturated with the experience of failure that he could barely hear the instruction. My father named that tendency directly. Don't let your failures write the script for what God is able to do next. Launch out into the deep. Keep pursuing. You will not miss it. It is the kind of word he gave to people who came to him in the middle of a long dry season, and it has the texture of something he had needed to hear himself, once, before he learned to say it.

Based on: Don't Limit God | Shorts

7 November 2018

After You Have Patiently Waited

He had a way of making patience sound like something active — not passive resignation, but a kind of muscled, deliberate trust. His text is Hebrews 6:15: after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. He points out, gently but clearly, that we live in a fast world — fast food, fast flights, fast lanes — and that this impatience has crept into the way we relate to God. Good things don't come fast. You don't get your degree overnight. Rome was not built in a day. But God is not withholding. He is faithful. The promise is already written. And those who wait will obtain it, just as Abraham did.

Based on: After You Have Patiently Waited | Shorts

17 May 2018

Seven Biblical Lessons About Death

If we truly understood the reality of death as the Bible presents it, we would not sympathise with those who die in Christ. Instead, we would rejoice with them. Here are seven things God's word asks us to bear in mind, so that whenever the time comes to depart this world, we may exit gloriously and without fear.