“I Know Kung Fu”

“I Know Kung Fu”

At a recent church camp I showed a clip of one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite movies, Matrix (1999). It’s the scene where Neo, the hero, has knowledge of kung fu downloaded into his brain. When the download was completed, he declares that he...
A Meal With Friends

A Meal With Friends

Charles Xavier: “This is what life looks like, people who love each other, a home. You should take a moment, feel it. You still have time.” (Logan, 2017) Yesterday I had lunch with friends from a very special period of my life, many of whom I have not met...
God is Bigger

God is Bigger

It’s not easy for me to revisit my past, especially a period I call my ten black years. I wished I could go back in time and do things better, make better choices, be a better man. But I can’t go back in time. Now, I seek to redeem my past by sharing whatever lessons I learnt from those dark times, with others. The most important lesson is this — God is bigger than our failures.

Our Emerging Ministry

Our Emerging Ministry

Graceworks organized its first Young Adult Ministry forum in November, 2014. Since then the Lord has confirmed our calling to minister to this age group. This article was published in February 2015. Two years on, it is a good reminder of our call to empower and equip...
Resilience

Resilience

In her book, The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith writes: As much as we might wish, none of us will be able to go through life without some kind of suffering. (Emily Esfahani Smith, The Power of Meaning, New York, NY: Crown, 2017, 185.) Smith does not write from...