It seems to me that one of snares of 21st century living is the increase around us, and sometimes in us, of a culture of entitlement. Of course this has always been there in human nature. As a child you get a wonderful present at Christmas from an aunt or a grandparent and you are […]
Not so long ago I was chatting with a friend who is going through a difficult time, and he said to me that the thing he most longed for was peace. He felt, I think, that he could do anything, even difficult things if he had peace. The trouble was that he was not happy […]
Yesterday we were reflecting on the fact that there are times in our lives when we feel beaten up by the circumstances of life, and the Lord does not always change those circumstances but walks through them with us. Sometimes, there are times in our life when there are shadows over us that don’t seem […]
One of the areas where there can be a struggle to fully live out our lives from our ‘new man in Christ’ is in the area of our speech – what comes out of our mouths. The Bible makes it clear that words are extremely important and have great power. ‘the tongue has the power […]
Yesterday we reflected on how my thoughts and reasoning based on God’s truth and in the flow of His Spirit, can mingle with thanksgiving to build, grow and strengthen my Faith. We saw how Abraham, our Father of Faith (Romans 4:16), used his mind and reasoning to feed his faith, and we remembered how thanksgiving […]
In recent blogs we have been reflecting on the fact that God is a God of truth, that He always speaks the truth and that His words of truth are a sure foundation for our faith and life. More recently, in our post modern world however, we seem to be in an age that is […]
Yesterday we were reflecting and being thrilled afresh that our God is a giver through and through. We know that the bible is absolutely clear that God is love. Sometimes however our concept and ideas about love are clouded by the modern expressions of love that seem to be more about what I can get […]
In the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, that magnificent book for adults that children enjoy too, the encounter the four children have with Mr and Mrs Beaver in the beaver’s house is beautiful. It also contains some wonderful truth. C S Lewis had a marvelous way of describing profound things about the Lord, and […]
It seems to me that the word ‘love’ and the ideas behind it have changed quite significantly over recent years. People still like to read 1 Corinthians 13 on love at weddings, but the modern use of the word love seems quite frequently to have a different emphasis. This can be trivial or major. We […]
The bible has a lot to say about Holiness. Early on in our journey as Christians most of us discover that God is Holy whether by reading the Old Testament in the books of Moses, or Isaiah’s call to ministry, (Isaiah 6) or in the Psalms (e.g. Psalm 99:3, 5, & 9). We discover that, […]