Probably the most difficult of Jesus' commands is the one to love our enemies that he gives in Luke's Gospel. Was he being serious when he gave that command, or was he just off with the fairies and hopeless out of touch with the real world?

This episode is a sermon I preached on Luke 6:27-36 in February 2025. In it we look at Jesus' command to love your enemies, what it looked like in the culture of the time, and what it means and doesn't mean for us. Look out too for a discussion of a study that looked at the results of non-violent resistance compared to violent resistance throughout the 20th century.

Was Jesus serious when he told us to love our enemies, or was he naive and out of touch? Find out in this episode of Soul Thoughts.

With the latest possible scenarios of how AI could spell the end of humanity, I thought it was time to look at what the Bible says about the end of the world.

When I was a young Christian, I was convinced I was living in the end times, mainly because certain people told me I was. I was convinced I was never going to die because Jesus was coming back in my lifetime.

In this episode, we look at what the Bible says and doesn't say about the End Times, why so many Christians believe that it does talk about the End Times, and what level of importance I think this should play in the life of the follower of Jesus.

Back in the 1970s, Jim Wallis, the founder of the Sojourners community in Washington DC, conducted an experiment to see what the Bible says about poverty and justice. He was astounded by what he found.

Many years earlier, Charles Finney, who invented altar call where people come up the front to give their lives to Christ, didn't separate coming to Christ from the need to do justice.

Seeking justice is not an optional add-on for the Christian. It needs to be in our very DNA as it's central to the Gospel. In this episode of Soul Thoughts, I seek to explain why.

Recent articles in the media have highlighted the concerns of climate scientists about an upcoming record-breaking El Niño and its impacts on our planet.

Should this be a concern for Christians? If Jesus is coming back anyway to make everything right, why should we bother about the environment? Isn't it a side-show to the real work of evangelism?

In this episode, we look at what the Scriptures say about God's concern for the planet. We look at a bit of theology and how we in the West in particular can love what God loves.

Do you struggle with shame? What about feelings of guilt? We all have a dark side, what Carl Jung called our shadow. What many of us haven't been taught though is that our shadow is not to be shunned or shamed. It's to be embraced.

If you ever find yourself reacting out of all proportion when something upsets us, your shadow has been exposed. It's not bad or evil, and God certainly doesn't see it like that.

In this episode, I discuss how we can embrace our shadow and become more integrated, whole people.

Being misunderstood is deeply hurtful. Jesus knew that intimately. In what scholars call the Caesarea Philippi Declaration, Jesus starts to talk about the fact that he is going to suffer and die, and the disciples don't like it one bit.

The people of the time were expecting a messiah who would liberate them from the tyranny of Rome. What do we want a messiah to be for us today? Who do we say Jesus is?

This is a sermon I preached at St Martin's Community Church in Melbourne on 23 August 2026. It's based on the Gospel reading for the day, which was Matthew 16:13-20.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had my share of shattered dreams in my life. Some have been self-inflicted, while others have been forced upon me. Still others have been a mixture of both.

Some people go through a whole lot more suffering in life than others. It’s a rare person though who goes through life never experiencing intense loss of some kind.

Let your suffering be redemptive. Jesus did. I reckon he's the best example we can follow about how to deal with life on life's terms. It's more than just putting a positive spin on things.

This is a sermon I preached at St Martin’s Community Church in Melbourne on Sunday 26 July 2026. It’s based on the Lectionary reading for the day, which was Romans 8:26-39.The greatest human need is to be fully known and yet still fully loved. It’s the best foundation for mental and emotional health that I know. This passage from what is probably Paul's most theologically compact letter lays that foundation.