Articles
- Accreditation: Luke 7:18–23
15 May 2026
John the Baptist sends disciples to ask: are you the one? Jesus answers not with words but with hours of consistent works. What does true accreditation look like for a ministry — and what does it demand of those who would be servants of Christ?
- And God Spoke All These Words
15 May 2026
A meditation on Exodus 1–5 — the names of broken men God chose to honour, what a soul really is, and why the Lord raised up both Pharaoh and Moses for this moment in history.
- Careful to Observe
15 May 2026
Deuteronomy 28 commands covenant faithfulness as a constant course correction. Not a single dramatic act of obedience, but a lifetime of returning to the law as the compass bearing—or else.
- Change and Transformation: Romans 12:2
15 May 2026
Romans 12:2 promises transformation, not just adjustment. But the word 'mind' in Paul's usage is not the cold rationalist organ—and the renewal required goes deeper than willpower.
- Children in the Marketplace: Luke 7:29–35
15 May 2026
The publicans justified God; the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves. Why did one group receive John's message and the other refuse it — and what does the Pharisee spirit look like in our own hearts today?
- Clean the Inside of the Cup: Luke 11:39–42
15 May 2026
The Pharisees polished the outside and left the inside full of ravening and wickedness. Real change is always inward change first — and almsgiving is the outward sign that something has been healed within. Are we any different from the Pharisees?
- Exiles No More
15 May 2026
A school of theology says Christians are still strangers and exiles on the earth. But this misreads the finished work of Christ and collapses the distinctions between pilgrims, exiles, and heirs.
- Force, Hardening, and the Tour de Force — Exodus 11 and How God Effects Liberation
15 May 2026
A parallel Sunday class teaching on Exodus 11:1–10, reworking the same passage from a companion session. Covers God's timetable vs. ours (value-investing analogy), the 480-year perspective and postmillennial faith, God as the master of 4D chess, the resurrection principle in Pharaoh, Moses, Abraham, and Isaac, the nature of Christ's power (not a gentle bellboy), force combined with hardening as God's mechanism of liberation, and the pattern of exaltation through humiliation expressed as marketplace labour. Closes with Tiffany's Q&A correcting the Rachel-and-ephod reference, identifying the Amos 3:6 passage, and noting the omitted end of the Proverbs 16:7 quotation.
- Glad Tidings of the Kingdom: Luke 8:1–8
15 May 2026
Jesus went village to village proclaiming the glad tidings of the kingdom — not a dour condemnation but an announcement that the king had come. What does it mean that the greatest preacher who ever lived gave people glad tidings?
- God's Timetable and the 480 Years: Believing When You Can't See the Way
15 May 2026
A Sunday class study on Exodus 11 — what the 480-year captivity teaches us about God's sovereign timetable, why turmoil in the world is God on the warpath, and how to hold on to the promises when everything looks impossible.
- His Father Never Loved Him: Jacob and Isaac
15 May 2026
Isaac was one of the great men of God — and yet he favoured his apostate son against all reason and against God's own word. What can Jacob's response to a father who never loved him teach us about dealing with adversity from our own flesh and blood?
- Identity, Vocation, and the Cost of Classical Christian Education
15 May 2026
Classical Christian education promises to rescue children from the godless state school. What it actually does is send them to drink from the same source that poisoned the culture in the first place.
- Jacob, Isaac, and the Question of Deception
15 May 2026
God said Jacob have I loved — so why has tradition painted him as a villain? A re-examination of Jacob as the beloved of God, Esau as scripture's great antagonist, and what the Jacob–Esau struggle means for every believer today.
- Jacob to Supplant: What His Name Really Means
15 May 2026
A Sunday teaching on Genesis 25 that recovers Jacob's true character — not the deceiver of popular imagination, but a righteous man contending for God's covenant against a profane and violent brother.
- Jesus in the House of Simon the Pharisee — Luke 7:36–50
15 May 2026
A verse-by-verse teaching on Luke 7:36–50, contrasting the Pharisee Simon and the sinful woman who anoints Jesus' feet. Covers the rules of hospitality, the meaning of costly thank offerings, Jesus' rabbinic teaching method, and the peace given to the repentant sinner.
- Lies for the Eyes
15 May 2026
Genesis 3 shows us that the first sin was preceded by a visual lie—the fruit looked good. The same mechanism drives processed food marketing, propaganda, and the tattoo industry. God is the one who assigns meaning, not us.
- My Mother and My Brethren: Luke 8:19–21
15 May 2026
When Jesus's mother and brothers came looking for him, he didn't stop. His answer redraws the lines of the family entirely — and it cuts across every comfortable assumption about where our deepest loyalty lies.
- Not Only the Initiates: Luke 8:16–18
15 May 2026
No one lights a candle and puts it under a bowl. Christianity is not a mystery religion with secrets for the initiated — it is a light set on a stand. And it is not arrogance to open the Word and read it; it is the heart of Protestantism.
- Pharaoh's Army and the Crossing: God Goes Before His People
15 May 2026
A Sunday class study on Exodus 14 — examining Pharaoh's two-group pursuit, the function of the pillar of cloud and fire, and what sovereign guidance means for God's people in a time of dislocation and change.
- Pharaoh's System and Moses: Exodus 10
15 May 2026
Even after frogs, gnats, boils, and darkness, Pharaoh kept dickering. God was working both ends of the equation — hardening one man and strengthening another. What does this say about the men God raises up in times of judgement?
- Set Over Nations and Kingdoms — Jeremiah 1 and the Prophet's Public Mission
15 May 2026
A Sunday class teaching on Jeremiah 1:10, the prophetic ministry to nations and kings, and how the dechristianisation of the West has flowed from a privatised conception of prophetic work. Discussion ranges into Ephesians 4, a victorious vs. suffering Christ, and a long examination of Deuteronomy 15 on lending, the seventh-year release, and the promise that there will be no poor among God's people.
- Standing on the Promises: Jacob, Deception, and the Covenant
15 May 2026
Was Jacob a deceiver by nature? A closer reading finds something more demanding: the first deception was Isaac's, the plan was Rebecca's, and the whole episode is an act of covenant fidelity.
- Tell Your Sons and Your Sons' Sons — Exodus 10 and the Eighth Plague
15 May 2026
A Sunday class teaching on Exodus 10:1–20 — the locust plague — focusing on God's stated purpose that the wonders against Egypt be a story passed from fathers to sons across generations. Covers the educational purpose of the plagues, the wedge driven between Pharaoh and his servants, the pattern of God's judgement on civil rulers, the economic devastation of locust infestations, and warnings against unbelieving Bible commentaries that treat the exodus as mere story rather than history.
- The Blueprint for Ministry: Luke 9:22
15 May 2026
Jesus encodes the pattern for successful Christian ministry in a single verse. It runs exactly counter to the culture of self-preservation—and it is guaranteed to work.
- The Church's Pagan Blind Spot
15 May 2026
Why can't the church see what's plainly in the text? The blockages are not random. They are the fruit of Hellenistic thinking embedded so deeply in Christian culture that it feels like orthodoxy.
- The Faith of the Roman Centurion: Part 1
15 May 2026
An unnamed Roman officer sends for Jesus through the elders of the Jews — men he had no natural reason to know, still less to command. What built those bonds across every expected line of conflict, and what does his earnestness say about our own?
- The Faith of the Roman Centurion: Part 2
15 May 2026
What made Jesus stop and marvel? Layers of the centurion's faith that go beyond the familiar outline—the spoken word, healing as wholeness, and the responsibility of the agent who cannot heal.
- The Firstborn and the Tithe: God's Precision Blows in Exodus 11
15 May 2026
A Sunday class study on Exodus 11 — the tenth plague announced, God's personalism in history, the 480-year timetable applied to our own times, and why every blow struck against unjust regimes is the hand of God.
- The Gadarene Demoniac: Luke 8:26–39
15 May 2026
A man naked among the tombs, cut off from the living, associated with death and power — this is what long-term demon possession looks like. And this is who Jesus walked toward when he arrived at the country of the Gadarenes.
- The Key of Knowledge
15 May 2026
In Luke 11:52, Jesus pronounces a devastating woe on the lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge. Why does this matter, and what does it mean for us today?
- The Pillar of Cloud and Sovereign Grace: Exodus
15 May 2026
Only one people got the pillar of cloud and fire — not because they deserved it, but because God sovereignly chose to lead them. Even their endless complaints couldn't make him withdraw it. What does that tell us about God, and about our own generation?
- The Plague of Hail: God's Pattern and Pharaoh's Heart
15 May 2026
A Sunday class study on Exodus 9 and the seventh plague — exploring the three-cycle pattern of the plagues, Pharaoh's repeated hardening, and what it means that the earth is the Lord's.
- The Sower and the Marketplace: Luke 8:4–15
15 May 2026
The disciples didn't understand the parable either — and they asked. Jesus's explanation maps four kinds of soil against four kinds of response. What does it take to be good ground, and why does the good soil's harvest outweigh all the losses combined?
- The Woman Who Wept at His Feet: Luke 7:36–50
15 May 2026
A sinful woman walks uninvited into Simon the Pharisee's house, weeps over Jesus's feet, and anoints them with costly ointment. The Pharisee sees only scandal. Jesus sees something far more costly — and far more clean.
- The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: Genesis 3
15 May 2026
The three enemies of the soul are not interchangeable. Knowing which you are dealing with determines how you respond. Genesis 3 is the classroom.
- To the Poor the Gospel Is Preached
15 May 2026
When Jesus answers John's messengers in Luke 7:22, he includes a phrase that seems out of place—until you trace it back to Isaiah 61 and realise that the cure for poverty is not money but liberty.
- Two Wee Circles Part 1: How Plato and Aristotle Hijacked the Christian Mind
15 May 2026
The first Egg and Beanbag Talk — a simple diagram of two circles explains the pagan dualism of spirit vs. matter that has infected Christian thinking for centuries, and why it matters for how we read the Bible and live in the world.
- Two Wee Circles Part 2: Closing the Gap Between God and the Real World
15 May 2026
The second Egg and Beanbag Talk — continuing the case against pagan dualism and showing how the biblical worldview collapses the false divide between spirit and matter, sacred and secular, Sunday and Monday.
- When God Comes Down — Exodus 11 and the Tenth Plague Announced
15 May 2026
A Sunday class teaching on Exodus 11:1–10, given on Resurrection Sunday. Covers the multi-generational evil of the Egyptian dynasty, the 480-year prophecy to Abraham, God's blow-by-blow strategy of judgement, personalism vs. Marxism in history, the resurrection principle (Matt 16:25) applied to Pharaoh and Moses, the capitalisation of God's people in gold and silver, the rift driven between Pharaoh and his servants, and the special significance of God coming down personally — paralleled with Babel and Sodom/Gomorrah. Includes Tiffany's Q&A on Exodus 11:8–9 in relation to verse 29.
- Who Do You Say That I Am? Luke 9:18–22
15 May 2026
A morning devotion on Luke 9:18–22 — Jesus praying alone, Luke's artistry in recording seven prayers, and the question that every man must answer: who is this Christ who prays before every moment of consequence?
- Wholeness in Two Stories — Luke 8:40–56 (Jairus's Daughter and the Woman With the Issue of Blood)
15 May 2026
A verse-by-verse teaching on Luke 8:40–56, examining the interleaved stories of Jairus's daughter and the woman with the issue of blood. Covers Luke's storytelling craft, the public humbling of two seekers before Jesus, the difference between male and female approaches to the Lord, the meaning of wholeness in the body-mind-spirit, and why the goal of all Christian ministry should be wholeness rather than fragmented healing.
- Wholeness: Jairus's Daughter, the Woman with the Issue of Blood, and What Healing Really Means
15 May 2026
A study in Luke 8:40–56 — two interleaved stories of faith pressing through obstacles to reach Jesus, what wholeness means as the goal of all ministry, and why Luke's storytelling technique is divinely sanctioned.
- Wholeness Part 1: Jairus, the Woman with the Issue of Blood, and the Variety of Faith
15 May 2026
A study in Luke 8:40–44 — why Jesus was gladly received, what Jairus falling at his feet tells us about humility and faith, and why we must never write off any group as uniformly hostile to the gospel.
- Wholeness Part 2: The Resurrection of Jairus's Daughter and What Healing Really Means
15 May 2026
A study in Luke 8:44–56 — Luke's interleaving narrative technique, the woman healed and publicly commended, Jairus told his daughter is dead, and what it means that Jesus restores wholeness to body and spirit together.
- Why Men Are Dying
15 May 2026
The poster in the service station toilet says 'adopt a middle-aged man.' The suicide statistics are real. But the church has no answer, and the world's answer is making things worse.
- Won Without a Word: 1 Peter 3:1
15 May 2026
1 Peter 3:1 has been used to silence women, and in some cases that silence has cost lives. A close reading of the Greek reveals something far more powerful—and far more demanding—than mere quietness.
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