‘There may be trouble ahead’ was a song we heard a number of years ago in an insurance advertisement. Something similar may have been in Paul’s mind as he set out to write to his Christian friends in Corinth. His first letter shows that, as they used to say in Lancashire, there was “trouble at […]
One route to the top of Helvellyn , a mountain in the English lake district, goes along a narrow path on top of a ridge called Striding Edge. (shown here).On either side of this ridge are steep slopes of hundreds of feet with crags and loose stones called a scree. If you slip down it […]
In I Corinthians 14 Paul talks about matters arising when we come together for fellowship, worship, teaching, or what we call “church” by way of shorthand. (verse 26). Because the first part of the chapter focuses on the proper and helpful place of the gifts of tongues and prophecy and the second half can get […]