In case you are wondering. Who do people say you are? It’s a similar question Jesus asked the disciples of Himself. Comparisons can throw a few odd things into the mix. What about a present-day comparison of Donald Trump with King Jehu? It’s probably a bit unfair on Jehu and may incur a higher trade tariff on the… Read More »
What If God Let You Know What He Knows? We don’t know what we don’t know, but have you ever thought about what it’s like to be God, who does? To know everything! Something occurred to me as I bantered with my friend Paul on Sunday. Open your bible app to 2 Kings 6:15-17 in the ESV. There’s… Read More »
And Why It Will Bring the Best Out in You My last post was about the dark side of the moon, the other side. In the last few days the astronauts have been floating around the press calls, amazing pictures have dropped and now we wait for the film! Until then, have you considered that there is actually… Read More »
252,756 miles from home. God was there. Already. Three days ago, four human beings were 252,756 miles from home. You read that too quickly. Not 252 miles. Not 2,500. Two hundred and fifty-two thousand, seven hundred and fifty-six miles from everything you treasure, find reassuring or familiar. Breath-taking and at a distance from Earth greater than any human… Read More »
What you can and can’t roll away. Easter is just over our shoulders. The tomb is still fresh in the imagination, the pre-dawn silence, the women moving through the early morning light with spices in their hands, braced for grief and tears. They had come to do something. Something tender and necessary. Something that, as it turned out,… Read More »
What happened to it? Something ‘happened’ to my account, if you didn’t get this post by email please re-subscribe! What have you borrowed recently? There is something quietly familiar about the idea of ‘borrowing’. In Christianity it seems to be the rule that when someone borrows your books, do not expect to see them again. The books, that… Read More »
The moment it happened Britain’s Got Talent – it’s that time of year again! In case you don’t know it the overview is simple. Four judges. A stage. Thousands of acts who have been practising in living rooms and community halls for years, hoping this is the moment. And a fair number of acts that are not from… Read More »
Fully trained and capable? I’m always intrigued as to how the disciples felt ministering alongside Jesus. Noone seemed to be saying, “Jesus, I’ve got it!” Over in Luke 10, Jesus sends out seventy-two people. Not just the Twelve or even the the inner circle. Seventy-two ordinary followers who have seen Jesus ‘do His stuff’, sent ahead of him… Read More »
Do you have a good excuse? Paul wrote Romans 7 as a cry of anguish but sometimes I wonder if we have turned it into a ‘permission slip’. Somewhere between the writing and the reading, one of the most transparent, vulnerable and honest passages in Scripture became the most theologically ‘convenient’. A heart-felt confession became a comfort blanket.… Read More »
Have a different spirit. It’s not something I imagine you read often, but the text in Numbers 14 is worth thinking about a few times today. Turn your bible app to Numbers; Caleb and Joshua have returned from the same land as the other ten men sent to spy out the land, but what do Caleb and Joshua… Read More »