2014/03 Contemporary Christian Music: Why Not? What is Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)? Wikipedia defines it thus, “Contemporary Christian music (or CCM—and occasionally “inspirational music”) is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. Today, the term is typically used to refer to pop, rock, or praise

2014/03 The Right God Young believers need to know the doctrine of God. I’m aware that this may not sound appealing to many young people today, but we will only please God in proportion to our knowledge of Him.  “…the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.”  (Daniel 11:32)  The

2014/03 What Makes a Good Friendship? The concept of friendship in childhood is, of course, undeveloped. Likewise, we all accept that having hundreds of contacts on some networking site is not an accurate way to guage friendships. What makes for a good friendship, then? I take as accepted the premise that believers will forge their

2014/05 Peer Pressure Peer pressure, the feeling of being pressurized to do or be something by those around us, is something we all experience. It is positive when we provoke one another unto love and good works. (Hebrews 10:24) But it can also be negative – peers may pressurize us to enter into a questionable

2014/07 What can I do to help my Minister? In Paul’s epistles he refers to his readers using the following terms: ‘fellowlabours’ (Philippians 4:3), ‘fellowsoldier’ (Philippians 2:25), ‘fellowservant’ (Colossians 1:7), ‘partner’ (Philemon 17), ‘labourers together’ (1 Corinthians 3:9). Such terminology expressed the truth that he, as a minister of the New Testament, did not want