From The Heart

According to the World Health Organisation, depression is the leading cause of disability globally. 300 million people suffer from it. It’s something that is common, so something we need to understand – for our own sake and for the sake of others so that we can be good Christ-like carers…

Daniel’s frightening dream of what’s up ahead left him reeling, and with lots of unanswered questions (Daniel 7). It was full of scary unknowns. Life is often like that. But the centrepiece of what God is doing is his sovereign rule, even over the ruthless rulers who will savage God’s…

Welcome to CrossCulture Open House! We’re so glad you could come today and hope that your time with us is inspiring and encouraging. We hope we can give you some idea of what goes on here and why we’ve been here for the last 154 years. We’d love you to…

One of the most obvious and certain facts is that our life is limited. We’re constantly reminded of this through the death of loved ones, accidents, health scares, the daily news, etc, etc. It’s everywhere, yet we often live our lives as if our time is limitless: time to really…

As children we learn early how to say the words “I’m sorry.” Parents rightfully get us to practice the behaviour when conflicts arise among siblings and playmates. Eventually, a true sense of remorse must catch-up to merely frowning and saying the words reluctantly so that we can go back to…

We often translate the word gospel as ‘good news’. But in the time of Jesus, it simply meant ‘news’. There’s a good reason for this. If you believe it and obey it, it’s incredibly good news. The exchange of our guilt and sin for Jesus’ perfect goodness and righteousness is…

I’m sure many of us have struggled with this thought, “Nothing lasts forever, so is there really any point to working so hard to achieve my goals? Isn’t it all a bit meaningless?”  King Solomon struggled with this issue and deals with it heavily in the book of Ecclesiastes -…

Growing up in the small town I lived in had its interesting scenarios.  Next door to us was a house that always had families changing over.  I remember one such family having its struggles. A fight had broken out, with alcohol involved and yelling echoing down the street.  We’d become…

Sometimes we can feel intimidated when opening the bible. It can feel so hard to understand and apply. Worse yet – it might even be boring! One reason we feel so discouraged is that we’ve only ever read God’s word by ourselves. Of course, it’s great to commit to personal…

I heard someone say the other day that they used to read the news to find out the facts of a story, so they could decide what to believe about it. They went on to say, “Now if I read the news I’m told what to believe about something, and…