We have all seen those punching machines at the arcade haven’t we? The more destructive the punch, the higher the score. This is one simple example where we are taught that gentleness will not help. Another situation that comes to mind, around being too gentle was...

Have you ever had to wait on something for so long that you grew restless? Have you ever had to wait for something you thought might not even come? As Christians we find ourselves ‘waiting on God’ quite often. This can be so hard because we just want something when WE...

What comes to your mind from just the word hope? It takes me back to my childhood. Those days when I was well behaved at school (few and far between) and I hoped that on my way home my parents would stop at a McDonald’s as my reward... Would my expectation be...

Forgiveness at first glance seems simple and obvious. Yet the more you think about it, forgiveness is really strange and extremely allusive. It is wonderful to receive but extremely painful to give. Forgiveness also conjures up lots of questions of variables and...

According to psychologists there are three stages our brain has to go through to remember something. They are: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Put simply, encoding happens when we process information that our brain has received, storage is when we turn that...

Most of the time, when we think about the word integrity, we think of morals or ethics. Maybe about catastrophes in the fall of individual superstars whose character and lack of integrity somehow got in the way of their success. I think you’d agree that character...