How public is your faith? On social media, people present their lives as happy and perfect. In private, their lives are more complicated; perhaps they are even struggling. As Christians our lives should be ‘what you see is what you get’. We should not care how we look to the rest of the world. We […]
Paul says it’s good to look back and see God’s mercy. As Christians, we escape God’s wrath. Nothing can separate us from God. We are made alive in Christ.
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[i] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” “For from him and through him and for him are all […]
Spike Milligan wrote about a poem about a baboon trying to do something impossible – trying to fly. Likewise in verse 2 of this passage we see the Israelite’s ‘zeal is not based on knowledge’. They are trying to do the impossible. We can see reasons why people get to heaven and reasons why people […]
Even though we have read the account of the Garden of Eden many times, God still speaks through his word in new ways. This passage is shot through with both judgement and grace. It also shows costly love. We can begin to see the expulsion of Adam and Eve is actually an act of love.
In Brexit negotiations this week, fishermen have accused the Government of letting them down. Politicians are calling each other liars, tearing each other apart. There is no love of their enemies. Being Christians, Jesus calls us to be radically different, in the way we treat our enemies.
James Piper once called Romans 8 the greatest chapter all of Scripture. When we become Christians, although we have new life in the spirit, there is still suffering. Sometimes, we can start to feel we’re not going to make it. But if we trust in Jesus, we will make it not because we are healthy, […]
In this passage, Jesus tells 3 stories that illustrate that he reaches out to people who are lost and in need of a Saviour: The shepherd and his lost sheep The woman and her lost coin The father and his lost son Jesus spent time with social outcasts and, of course, the pharisees disapproved.
Something has gone wrong with the world. Creation groans, as Christians, we groan, and the Spirit intercedes for us with groans.
Billy Graham spoke to over 200 million people in his lifetime and invited them to turn from sin to follow Jesus Christ. One of the rules he lived by was that he would never be alone with another woman, apart from his wife. He did not want his life to be tainted by scandal. We are […]