The Gospel Saturated Blog

The gospel is good news before it is good advice. It tells us who Jesus is, what he has done, and what that means for our lives and our world.

Author: Carrie Shaw
Faith & Life

New Beginnings

God is all about new beginnings. We see the story of humanity starting out in Genesis with a new beginning; light and order being formed out of darkness and chaos. And we see this theme of light and order echoed in the new beginning that Christians find in Jesus. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul the Apostle confirms that “if anyone is in Christ, they have become a new person, a ‘new creation’. The old life is gone, a new life has begun. And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ." (NLT) This is, of course, one of the key aspects of the gospel message of good news.
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Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit | This Same Power

God personally inhabits the creative work that takes place in Genesis. It is His Spirit that empowers life, light, knowledge, beauty, creativity, joy, goodness, fruitfulness, and blessings (Genesis 1:31). It was His Spirit that brought life and order out of chaos and darkness. Everything seen and unseen is called into being by His Spirit and continues to exist by being connected to His Spirit (Job 34:14-16).
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Faith & LifeHoly Spirit

Regeneration + The Holy Spirit

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Marriage & RelationshipsWomen & Men

Stop Promoting Gender Hierarchy!

One of the most damaging teachings that has shaped the church throughout her history and which continues to exert influence today - is the belief that God established a hierarchy of men over women at creation. This hierarchy, it's claimed, was either, 1. part of God’s original plan or, 2. a prescriptive punishment on women because of sin.
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Jesus

An Easter Tale

Let me tell you a tale. It starts in a garden, long, long ago. And what a garden it was - literally, a paradise on earth. A place of grandeur and beauty, filled with trees of every description and with leaves in every shade of green, soaring upwards toward a sky so blue it hurts the eyes.
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judge that you be not judged
Faith & Life

Judge Not, That You Be Not Judged

It seems to me that it has become increasingly difficult to speak into many issues or situations that the church faces today; not because the Bible is silent, not because the church doesn't have or hasn't held a historical position on a matter, and not because we, as Christians, don't know what we ought to be doing. Rather, we are feeling pressed into silence, in many instances, simply on the basis of one little verse found at the beginning of Matthew 7; "Judge not that you be not judged"
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The Church

What The Church Is (And What She Isn’t)

She is more transformational than alchemy, the almost-magical science of transmutation; changing one substance or organism into something else entirely. For it's within her very body that weak and decaying humans, desperately indentured to sin, are rescued, released, and restored to become children of God who will themselves transcend even death itself.
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History & HeroesOld Testament

Ruth: The Inconsequential Outsider

The word of God is like a vast tapestry, its main theme interwoven with many subplots and side stories that run like golden threads through an intricate design. Each of these threads complements the complete telling of God's story and narrates again and again to us the way in which God views our world and us, the people who inhabit it. The story of Ruth, a seemingly inconsequential outsider, is one of these golden threads.
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Faith & Life

Religion // Cruciformity

The word religion, from the Latin religiō, meaning ‘to bind’, is a word which in the ancient and medieval world was used to refer to individual virtue of worship; respect for what was sacred, and a reverence for the divine. It described an attitude of being rather than a creedal position and it related to the individual rather than the collective.
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Faith & Life

Forgiveness Is A Tough Gig

They say, ‘write about what you know’. Well, here’s what I know: forgiveness is hard.
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Faith & LifeOrigins & Authority

Beyond The Pale

"By the 14th century, the Norman invasion of Ireland was struggling. Too many Normans had "gone native", assimilated into Irish life. The remaining settlers had retreated to just four eastern counties: Louth, Meath, Dublin, and Kildare. These four "obedient shires" were the only part of Ireland still under the control of the English crown. The king's perimeter was marked with wooden fence posts pounded into the Irish turf. These were called "pales," from the Latin palus, meaning "stake."
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Faith & Life

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

If I'm honest, there are things in my life that I look back on and still blush over. There are things said and unsaid in my past that still cause me regret when I recall them today. There's definitely a sense, at times, that if only I could go back and do that thing over, things would be different.
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LATEST ARTICLES
Headship

The Headship Bait-And-Switch

Carrie Shaw October 4, 2026

“The husband is the head of his wife.” It’s a favourite refrain in complementarian circles, particularly when the conversation turns to biblical manhood, leadership, and a husband’s supposed God-given authority

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israel and the church

Israel, The Church, and the Christian Conscience

Carrie Shaw October 10, 2026

What do Christianity and Judaism have in common, if anything? How should the Church understand its relationship with the Israel of today? What responsibilities do Christians have towards the Jewish people? And how should our answers to these questions shape the way we engage in public discourse about contemporary political and social issues?

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