Soul Food

Carla Lindsey on life with her son Jayden, who was born with cerebral palsy.

Properly caring for someone means embracing their grime as well as their beauty.

Darlene Zschech is one of the biggest names in contemporary worship, yet remains humble and focussed.

William Paul Young, the author of the publishing phenomenon The Shack, details his own private, painful journey to healing.

Experts agree that humans are hard-wired for social connection. Yet it seems that we’re getting lonelier.

Hayden Shearman, who got his start writing songs for the band Moped and church, puts the case for God-inspired song writing.

All the members of Grammy-award winning worship rock band Casting Crowns are full-time youth pastors. How on earth do they avoid burnout?

How can we be woven in creativity, rather than cultural copycats? Creativity is the ‘imprint of God’ in our lives, says Graham Burt, an expert in creativity.

Your marriage is far too important to leave to happenstance. But with the investment of a little together time, you can make it a great place to live.

Tears stream down my face when I think of the many generations of Māori people affected by the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

This year, resolve to be more lazy. Instead of gritted teeth and white knuckles, fall into God’s grace.

A Christmas Message from our international leader, General Linda Bond.

Jesus came into a season of waiting. Is this Christmas such a season for you?

Mixed with the blood, sweat and tears of life, are droplets of joy. God has something for you in this season.

He is tough. He is adventurous. He is Bear Grylls—media phenomenon and ‘Ultimate Survivor’.

Many people find church a hard part of their walk with Christ whether because of hurts, time commitments, circumstances or because they sense hypocrisy.

'If you do all this to save one penguin, how much more will the Father not do for you?’

Up until that moment it had been stories. Most of them good stories with heroes, action-a-plenty, miracles and happy endings.

We might hear people say, ‘God called me to …’ or ‘God showed me that I needed to …’. But what does it actually mean to ‘hear’ God in this way?

Is God tugging you to church?

For my part in the pageantry, I had a tea party with a gaggle of girls and one Mr Barratt, who claimed he was there for the ‘military regalia’.

We need to value each opportunity to spend time with our children, particularly as we become sideshows to the main attractions of their increasingly separate lives.

One of the heart-wrenching stories to come out of last month’s Queensland floods was that of 13-year-old Jordan Rice.

Let’s all of us take a check of why we work and invite God and his creative Spirit into every aspect of it.

Early morning earthquake. No more scary place than Christchurch.

'Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep us awake and moving.'

We all have an inner urge to find heroes who can inspire us and remind us of the potential we each hold.

'Tis the season to be … wet, cold and angry on the sidelines?

The realisation that this world isn’t the answer and is ultimately meaningless is very important for each of us to grasp.

Probably not the question you’d expect to see on a Christian website, but nonetheless it’s an important question for each of us.

Every Christian has the God-given potential within them to rise above their circumstances and bring light to an often dark world.

What are we actually celebrating on Valentine’s Day? Sure, ‘romance’ is the obvious answer, but what exactly is romance?

At its core, the question: ‘What am I going to do with the rest of my life?’ is concerned with investment.

I don’t think that you and I view Jesus’ birth in the same way that Simeon did.

Sometimes success comes down to a goal. Pure and simple.

What will we do with the freedom God has given us? The invitation is to join a conspiracy of goodness in our world.

When was the last time you shared your most intimate thoughts with God?

You and I can be a light. The source and supply is Jesus, but the sharing is ours.

Those who make the world a better place are those who let their longings inspire prayers and then turn those prayers into actions.

Somewhere along the line it seems that I developed a desire to pull things apart, inspect them, tape them up in new ways and admire my handiwork.

Isn’t the most important part of my life one massive, adrenaline-filled adventure?

Because somewhere in Bruce’s creation, I became terribly fond of him

I needed an antibiotic to get rid of the poison; something from outside me to kill the poison within.

If only we all saw our means to give as a beautiful blessing from the God that decided to bless us first.

A glimpse of Jesus' heart will help us see the world as God's harvest field rather than the devil's playground.

Much in life is unpredictable if not truly random, but God’s love and faithfulness is certain.

There are some essential principles for effective cross-cultural evangelism.

‘Mother’—were she called by any other name would not her nature be the same?

We need to look at giving to God as a lifestyle, an ongoing spiritual discipline, rather than as a financial burden.

Heaven is something that becomes so easy to ignore as we carry on in our daily Christian walk.

God's presence is our inheritance, but we must take responsibility for cultivating it.

Are you thirsting for a more satisfying life? Seek the Supreme Sakkar and let him become your benefactor.

Our heritage will not save us—Jesus does. Our history will not sustain us—the Holy Spirit will.

Some are born gardeners, some achieve gardening greatness, and some have gardening greatness thrust upon them.

Christianity is authenticated when we can say that we know the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in our own lives.

Walking through life gets easier the closer we get to God.