A New Earth. A New You
Can changing your name change your life? Yes and no. The Christian vision offers something even deeper: a new earth and a new you with a new name thrown in too. Episode 7 in the Unseen Footprints article and podcast series. More…
Spotting the Authentic God
As any psychologist can tell you, our understanding of God is vitally important. Many are held captive by an imaginary deity shaped by the fear and pain of their past. These humanly-inspired gods will always break our hearts, either failing to meet our expectations or forever holding us in torment. So, who is God? What is God like? How can we spot the authentic from the counterfeit? Episode 6 in the Unseen Footprints article and podcast series. More…
What is (Your) God Like?
As a primary-schooler I contemplated God and felt trapped. At the time my parents were involved in one of the world’s more zealous religious sects, I was being raised according to its tenets, and the God of this faith was a difficult God to please. All of us hold an image of God in our minds. So who is your God? What is your God like? Episode 5 in the Unseen Footprints article and podcast series.
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Hearing the Whispers of God
God is calling us, trying to get our attention. But he rarely shouts to make himself heard. Instead, he whispers to us. Before we’ve even opened a Bible he has been drawing, beckoning, whispering. Will we stop to hear him? Will we even attempt to hear his voice? Here are four ways he whispers to us and how we can learn to listen. Episode 4 in the Unseen Footprints article and podcast series. More…
What Do You Really Want?
Sometimes you get to see a dream realised and discover the dream wasn’t that great to begin with. As the party ends and the streamers are swept up, you realise you yearn for something greater, deeper, more lasting. That was my experience. Episode 3 in the Unseen Footprints article and podcast series. More…
How Pain Can Lead us to God
For some people, pain is the reason why they can’t believe in God or spiritual things. But for others, pain is the very thing that prompts their search for ‘something more’. In Episode 2 of this article and podcast series on the book Unseen Footprints, we explore the role pain has in spiritual searching. Includes a reflection exercise on recalling your spiritual ‘inciting incident’. More…
Becoming Attentive to God
If God’s unseen footprints walk in and out of our lives, how can we begin to discern and follow them? Here is Episode 1 in a special series of articles and podcasts on the themes of my book, Unseen Footprints: Encountering the Divine Along the Journey of Life. We’ll explore unseen realities and conclude with a guided reflection exercise on becoming attentive to God. More…
Unseen Footprints FREE Chapters (New Edition)
Could we have had encounters with the divine that we haven’t yet recognised as such? Could God be written into the drama of our lives as if played by a secondary character or an extra that we haven’t paid much attention to? Read or download the first two chapters of the new edition award-winning book Unseen Footprints. More…
Unseen Footprints: New Edition!
Winning the Christian Book of the Year award on its first Australian release, this second edition of Unseen Footprints includes all new features. Could God be written into the drama of our lives as if played by a secondary character or an extra that we haven’t paid much attention to? Come and find out. More…
Holding onto God through the Dark Night of Doubt
If you’re a person of faith who has experienced a season of doubt you’ll know it can be a harrowing experience. Like your world is suddenly unstable. But can doubt ever be a good thing? In this talk I tell the stories of two men: one a Middle-Eastern God-follower in 1000BC, the other a 21 year old Bible College student of modern times. Both come to a profound experience of God through their doubt. More…