Faith
When God Does Not Answer the Way We Expected
Faith is not proved by always receiving the outcome we asked for. Sometimes faith is continuing to trust God when His answer differs from our expectation.
October 7, 20263 min readFaith
Notes on following Jesus — scripture, prayer and what faith asks of an ordinary working life. Written down to work them out, and shared in case they help someone else.
Ask, Seek, Knock
Persistence is not trying to exhaust a reluctant God. It is continuing to trust a willing Father.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Pray and Watch
Faith does not force a choice between prayer and responsibility. Nehemiah prayed—and set a watch.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
To the Father, Through the Son, in the Spirit
Christian prayer is not vague spirituality: we come to the Father through the Son, helped by the Holy Spirit.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
If God Already Knows, Why Pray?
Prayer does not update God. It changes our posture and draws us into what He is doing.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
When the Word Becomes a Burden
Some prayers begin as information. Deeper prayers begin when the Word of God becomes a burden in the heart.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Prayer Is More Than Asking
Prayer begins not with what we need from God, but with the fact that we belong to Him.
October 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Authority Without Ownership
A Kingdom view of leadership, submission, responsibility and accountability. Authority is stewardship, not ownership: leaders answer to God for the people entrusted to them, and followers can honour authority without surrendering conscience.
October 6, 2026 · 10 min read
The Bible Begins and Ends With a Wedding
Scripture begins with a bride and bridegroom in a garden and ends with the Lamb and His Bride in the new creation.
October 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Be Fruitful and Multiply—Again
The first family filled the earth through natural birth. The new family multiplies as the Spirit gives new birth and Christ is formed in disciples.
October 6, 2026 · 4 min read
The Church Is a Household, Not an Audience
Church was never intended to be a weekly audience gathered around a programme. In Christ, strangers become household.
October 6, 2026 · 4 min read
A Family Should Look Like Its Father
Christ is the perfect Image of the Father, and the new family is being formed to carry His resemblance.
October 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Born Into Another Family
The new family does not grow through biology. It grows through new birth by the Spirit.
October 6, 2026 · 4 min read
The Last Adam and His Bride
The first Adam received a bride after deep sleep. The Last Adam gave Himself in death and rose to receive a redeemed Bride.
October 6, 2026 · 5 min read
Every Family Bears the Image of Its Head
Every humanity carries the likeness of its source. In Adam we bear the earthly image; in Christ we are being formed into the image of the heavenly Man.
October 6, 2026 · 5 min read
God Is Not Fixing the Old Man
The gospel is not God's renovation project for the old humanity. In Christ, something genuinely new has begun.
October 6, 2026 · 5 min read
One Spirit, Many Members
Why spiritual gifts were never meant to make us superheroes. One Spirit, many members, one Head: gifts point outward, maturity shows in fruit, and no believer was designed to be everything.
October 6, 2026 · 14 min read
The Rope, the Cliff, and Learning to Recognise God's Leading
Sometimes the rope in your hand isn't an idol — it's God's provision. So how do you know when He is asking you to hold it, climb with it, or let it go?
October 6, 2026 · 9 min read
The God Who Comes Looking for the Lost
Understanding mercy and grace through Luke 15. A sheep wanders, a coin does nothing, a son walks away — three kinds of lostness, and one Father who goes out looking for every one of them.
June 23, 2024 · 11 min read
You Were Born to Grow
Lessons about spiritual maturity from creation. Seeds, roots, pruning and seasons: living things are expected to grow, and the Christian life is a life we were born into, not a moment we once believed.
June 12, 2024 · 10 min read
When Desire Becomes a Master
Understanding addiction through Scripture. Something doesn't have to be evil to master us — the question is what has acquired power over me, and how the gospel addresses captivity, not just guilt.
June 9, 2024 · 11 min read
Knowing the God Who Cannot Be Reduced to One Experience
We meet God as Provider, Healer, Father or Judge — and quietly assume the way we first met Him is the whole of Him. He is greater than any one encounter.
April 26, 2024 · 14 min read