God

In God’s Hands, All is As it Must Be

A lovely experience of walking in snow recently reminded me of a spiritual retreat I once attended on the four principles of Indian spirituality. These principles all point to the fact that the circumstances of life are all sovereignly ordained by God.

Forge Ahead with the Love of God

It’s all about the attitude, the power of being positive. You can see, or perhaps experience it, in sport: you don’t score runs at cricket if you play defensively; you can’t win at rugby or soccer if you spend all your time defending your own line. It’s very difficult to win at tennis if you concentrate only on returning your opponent’s shots.

To Try and Love is to Know God

As an old man looking back over his life as a Christian, as someone who had walked and talked with Jesus, had listened to him preaching, seen him die and had experienced him as risen again — as he approached death, the apostle John found himself writing increasingly about the centrality of love.

Why Do We Pray?

Over the past few weeks, Catholics and people of other faiths have been praying for the rains to come to avert the crisis. I do not want to undermine or diminish the power of prayer, but it is worth asking ourselves what we feel the act of prayer in itself is actually doing.

The Trick in Answering God’s Call

A  while ago, I was speaking to my wife about me trying to get back on air as a radio presenter. But instead of the expected affirmations like “I believe in you”, she simply asked me: “Do you believe this is what God wants of your life? Do you think this is what God is calling you to?”