Matthew Perry’s death sobers us. It reminds us of the fleeting nature of life and the fading nature of beauty.
When Death Starts to Take Our Friends
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Why Do We Hang On To Toxic Leaders?
The attitude that any leader, despite their behaviour, is integral and indispensible to the organisation, is a myth, writes Stephen McAlpine.
The ‘Theology of The Skull’ in Euthanasia Laws
What we are watching in the post-Christian West is the inexorable marching of what I will term “The Theology Of The Skull”.
Tim Keller’s Last Word on Forgiveness
Tim Keller’s final book does what the writer did for the bulk of his ministry: it infuses a deep gracious call for spiritual transformation.
My Friends’ Dads Are Dying. So What Are We Learning From It?
I don’t mean to sound too sombre, but planning for death, its inevitability and inexorable pull towards our grave, is not a bad thing.
‘Video’ Discipleship In a ‘Digital’ Age – Why The Church Needs to Catch Up
The world is discipling us, not on the basis of intellectual argument, but at a deeply subterranean emotional level, writes Stephen McAlpine.
You’re Not One of Those Evangelicals Are You?
I’d just settled into the plane for the five hour flight back home across this great brown land called Australia, and I was tired.
Okay, So it’s a Secular Age – But Jesus is Still Working
We don’t need to tailor the gospel message to make it more acceptable to the modern progressive mind, writes Stephen McAlpine.
Hey Christian, Don’t ‘Quiet Quit’ Your Faith
Quiet quitting the Christian life is when people bear no fruit because of ‘the cares of the world’… or as we might put it today, “everyday life”.
John and Amy’s Kitchen Table – And What it Says About Worship
We need to build Christian worship that complements both old and new, and is true… Worship cannot be aesthetics alone, writes Stephen McAlpine.