Living on a Prayer – God Hears (John 11:1-44)
THE POWER OF HEARING AND BEING HEARD My son recently did an internship for a Business Management Consulting firm in Johannesburg. He worked long hours and got very little sleep [...]
Living on a Prayer – God Reveals (Matthew 11:25-30)
THE POWER OF NEW DISCOVERIES In 1941 a man named George De Mestral took his dog for a hike in the Alps. When he returned he noticed the burrs on [...]
Living on a Prayer – God Weeps (Luke 19:41-44)
OUR VIOLENCE AND THE UNNECESSARY SUFFERING IT BRINGS I became a Christian at fourteen years of age. Which made my life at school…complicated. You see I was a late developer, [...]
Living on a Prayer – God Prays (Romans 8:18-39)
PRAYER AS NUMBING OUT OR DIVING IN So - Ash Wednesday! This has got to be one of the strangest things to do in our world today. We put ashes [...]
Face to Face – The Face of God (Matthew 17:1-13)
THE POWER OF WONDER Have you ever seen something or experienced something that completely changed what you felt was possible? Can you remember a moment when a whole new set [...]
Face to Face – The Face of Hope (Luke 7:11-17)
THE SOURCE OF OUR HOPELESSNESS In the last few months here at Northfield we seem to keep coming back to hope. And that makes sense because there is so much [...]
Face to Face – The Face of Welcome (Matthew 15:21-28)
THE PAIN OF REJECTION AND THE POWER OF TRUE WELCOME In the four years in which we lived in Knysna my younger son struggled to fit in at school. We [...]
Face to Face – The Face of Truth (John 9:1-41)
HEART: HOW WE SEE IS WHAT WE SEE When I started out in ministry I was based in Durban and my supervisor was Rev. Ray Light. For one of our [...]
Face to Face – The Face of Surrender (Matthew 3:13-17)
IT’S NOT JUST WHY OR WHAT. IT’S HOW. I assume that everyone is looking forward to 2017 and hoping it will be a year in which you connect more deeply [...]
(Extra)Ordinary – Dream Come True (Luke 2:22-40)
THE CALL TO DREAM There are so many reasons not to dream. There are so many people who will tell you that dreams are for children, that we should get [...]