It would be very strange to see a butterfly living its life like a caterpillar, never trusting its wings to carry it and never embracing its new identity. It would be a denial of all that defines its existence.It occurred to me some time ago that I had spent a significant part of my life making statements about faith, but not actually living my life as if they were true. That’s why I gave this book the title ‘As If’ – because I wondered how different my life would look if I lived as...

My intention in writing this book has been to ‘express the in-expressible’, the most astonishing spectacle ever presented to humanity – the surpassing greatness of Christ.Christianity is not primarily about the programs, activities and causes of church life, it is about the union that Jesus re-built between us and God. I spent the better part of my life deeply involved in the organization that represents the Lord of Glory, but the busyness of church life had a way of filtering out t...

Have you ever wondered what’s on the other side? Most of us are so preoccupied with life in the here and now that we hardly stop to think about what eternity is actually like. It is, after all, a long way off for most of us—so we think we can give it some thought when it looms a little larger.However, the Bible speaks of eternity as “present tense,” i.e. we are in it now. John 5:24 tells us that we have eternal life as soon as we believe in Jesus. So it begs the question, “If etern...

Adam handed to us a broken version of God’s original design of humankind; our spirit and soul were now two completely individual and unrelated parts.Adam’s actions starved our spirit of the freely given nourishment that comes from the heart of God, and he set our soul a task it wasn’t designed for – to generate self-worth from our management of good and evil.The work Jesus accomplished on the cross was the reunifying of ourselves, and once again we have a seamless union betwe...

The thing that makes God’s dream of humanity so wild is… He knew.He knew all our days, all the good and evil, and He didn’t even blink – such is the extravagant love that has held me from eternity to eternity.God’s wildest dream and my wildest dream coincided on the cross of Jesus.The ancient longing within me to be loved without any strings attached, and the ancient truth about God that I would be the object of His wild love, became one magnificent reality when Jesus ...

Hardwired to Christ is a daily devotional book which focuses on the union that exists between us and Christ; 365 questions about the most stunning spectacle in history – the cross of Jesus.The author attempts to demystify the greatest mystery of all; ‘We have been joined to Christ’ – and in doing so challenges many of the pre-conceived ideas which have come to define Christianity. These old paradigms may be simply the established rhetoric of the culture of Christianity, or perhaps n...

The true gospel message has little to say about what we do, and much to say about what Christ did, and who we are as a result. This gospel is not found in the busy activities of religion, it is more akin to a pilgrimage to the cross, you just go there and ask God to show you what it was all about. And then you go back, time and time again, all by yourself, and gradually the magnitude of it begins to dawn on you, and you stand amazed by it.

My intention in writing this book has been to show that there is a lie that has been written on the hearts of humanity ever since Adam took leave of the presence of God. This lie obscures the very thing we want most – the Life of the Spirit.The way to this life is a narrow, less crowded road - and few find it. Yet it awaits us all.I have deliberately written in a way that is more conversational than instructional. My intention in this conversation is not to tell you how to th...

Stevie Linden loved the river and fishing more than anything. But as he looked more closely he discovered a mystery and wonder in there, and it drew him beyond the natural watery river and deeper into the river within the river.The river within the river is sometimes called the River of Life; it doesn't flow out to the ocean like most rivers, but into the hearts of people who are broken and ready to be held by the most astonishing and extravagant love... if they will just let go.