The Easter event is the most important event in human history. Without the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ we would all be lost –…
The gospel message is simple enough for a child to respond to, but deep and complex enough for the greatest philosophers to struggle with over…
I am told that the words “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad” is a phrase spoken by Prometheus in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s…
I have a confession to make: I did not always love Second Corinthians like I do now. A lot of it is about Paul defending…
It never ceases to amaze me when I hear Christians giving God advice: telling him what he is allowed to do or say. They have…
One can find spiritual parallels with most things in life, so let me try one here, utilising pop music. There are many musical artists who…
When the Rolling Stones sang about not being able to get any satisfaction back in 1965, that may in fact have been a good thing.…
Anyone who has flown on a plane knows about perspective. From many thousands of feet up in the air we can see things far differently…
The Rio summer Olympics are not even halfway over yet, but already some major records have been broken. One that stands shoulders above all the…
Millions of people have just watched the opening ceremony of the 31st Olympiad, the summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro. Now they will settle down…
Jesus said quite explicitly on various occasions that the servant is not above the master (Matthew 10:24-25; Luke 6:40; John 13:16; John 15:20). The disciple…
As things look more and more hopeless in America, with a likely presidential race featuring two pagan egomaniacs who mostly care about only themselves, it…
These two rather similar verses are not so much difficult passages as ones that can be easily misused. I have had people tell me for…
The issue of women in the military, and specifically, women in combat, arose again in the US Republican debates. While contenders Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush,…
One of the clearest teachings of Scripture running from Genesis to Revelation is that there are two classes of humanity: those who belong to God…
As part of my ongoing series on dumb sayings and posters, I offer a few more for your enjoyment and edification. Given that the social…
In the contemporary West the concept of absolute and universal truth has largely been abandoned, and we are now awash in a sea of relativism…
When you don’t have solid answers, arguments and facts to make your case, then simply demonising and shouting down opposing voices is always a neat…
One good test to decide if we really are sons and daughters of the Living God is if we share his heart on important issues.…