Little kids love to copy their fathers. If Dad is changing a tyre, a little boy has to be out there doing it too, even though they may not actually help in any way. There is something that makes them want to copy. Jesus, even as...
Sometimes people believe that the book of Genesis is confused...
It's easy to understand why people struggle with the idea of there being apostles. I think we are all wrestling with it, because it is what it means that we are wrestling with. For some, the wrestle is with the supernatural. Nobody today seems to have...
The world the Lord has made is physical, beautiful, grand and amazing, and yet before sin ruined it, it would have been much more glorious than we are capable of imagining. Eden was no little garden, no tiny planting of herbs, and no orchard, or minuscule...
One of the arguments made against there being apostles today is that we don't need them. The idea is that they were brought along by Christ to write the Bible, and that given we now have the Bible we no longer have a need for...
In the middle ages, when less people were literate, stained glass windows and other artistry served to teach people about God and draw them to him. There is a place where someone may sit with the Lord, and contemplate him with the help of...
There are a few scary verses in the Bible. Some of them because we understand them, but some of them are scary because we do not understand them. Like this verse quoting Jesus: 'For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of...
There was a time not so long ago when to say that there were still apostles was almost heretical, but if you got away with saying it, people would certainly disagree. There were of course apostles in Bible times, they wrote a lot of the New...
At home, in my closet along with all my clothes, is a shelf reserved for important papers. My passport is there, report cards from my school days, and my birth certificate. My birth certificate is a piece of paper that documents my origins....
A few years ago I read 'The Great Emergence' by Phyllis Tickle. It's basic idea was that Christianity is changing and she gave reasons for that thought. In the introduction to the book Phyllis said that it seemed that about every 500 years the Lord...
