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What Is Sin?
A short, clear, biblical answer
Sin is the absence of godly love, measured by the God who is love. Traced from the first sin in the garden, through the heart, to the cross.
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The new book · Launching 27 June 2026
Meaningless Without
Bearing the image of God
Kindle pre-order available now. Paperback launches 27 June 2026.
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Love in Practice · June 2, 2026
What Are You Afraid Of?
Not the surface fears. The ones that keep you up at night, quietly running like an alarm that never switches off. Scripture says perfect love drives them out, and that is not passive.
What are you afraid of?
Not the surface fears. Not spiders or heights or the dark. Go deeper. What is it that keeps you up at night, quietly running in the background of your mind like an alarm that never quite switches off?
Are you afraid of being abandoned? Of not being enough? Of what God really thinks of you when no one is watching? Of loving someone fully and being hurt anyway…
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All articles →Love in Practice · May 26, 2026
Do You Have A List?
Most of us are keeping a quiet ledger of who hurt us, how badly, and how many times. The record is a prison we built. The way out is forgiveness.
Love in Practice · May 20, 2026
You Are Always Sharpening Something
Whether you realize it or not, your reactions are being honed by what you keep feeding. The question is, what.
Love in Practice · May 13, 2026
Seven Words That Should Stop Us In Our Tracks.
They have received their reward in full.
Love in Practice · May 5, 2026
Mercy In Motion
Kindness is not weakness. It is the active goodness of God toward those who deserve nothing.
Love in Practice · April 28, 2026
I Did Not Set Out To Write A Book About Love.
A note from the author.
About JQ
I am a Christian writer based in South Africa, happily married, living a quiet life. I read Scripture slowly, with a concordance and a Greek lexicon. I am not a theologian. I am a careful reader who believes the text means what it says.
I write because I became convinced that many Christians are carrying a version of their faith that is heavier and more complicated than it needs to be, when the thing underneath it all is actually quite simple.
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