Jesus said to the twelve that it was better that he leave them, because the Holy Spirit would come. (John 16:7) It's hard to imagine how it could be better without Jesus physically present, but that is because we underestimate the power of the Holy...
This coming Sunday (August 3rd 2025) is Tish B'av on the Jewish Calendar, the saddest day of the year for Jewish people. It was on this day in 586 BC that the Babylonians burnt the city of Jerusalem to the ground and it was utterly...
I'm hungry for more of God, for a few reasons. Firstly I know I need Him. I'm not sufficient on my own, not for a single thing. Secondly, I've tasted of His goodness and it is soul-satisfying and thirst-quenching and I'm forever changed. But, I...
We recently had a visitor to Peace who had been on a mission trip to India with Stuart Gramenz. Stuart taught people to lay hands on the sick and say, 'Be healed in Jesus' name.' During a church meeting, our visitor was presented with a girl...
The book of Revelation almost didn't make it into the Bible. Back then not everyone agreed about what it meant or how useful it was. Today, it's place in the Bible is less of an issue, but we are still coming to the place of...
Abraham is both remarkable and ordinary. The Ordinary Abraham Abraham was just one man, with a barren wife, who lived in ancient times surrounded by idol worshippers in Mesopotamia. He lived in tents, had sheep and goats, had some servants, and otherwise lived an unremarkable existence. He...
Its easier to see in the Bible how Jesus and the Father are separate. Jesus prays to the Father, so they must be separate, and indeed they are. Yet it is hard for us to wrap our minds around how together, how inseparable, how agreed...
People need something bigger than themselves to believe in. Historically in ancient times people believed that the sun, the moon, the stars and even nature around them were deities. Creation is big and grand and it seemed logical to people to worship it and trust it. ...
People reading current affairs can easily be tempted to ask themselves if we are not in the end of days. This week (June 2025) with Israel destroying the Iranian nuclear facilities at Isfahan, and killing 250 people in the process has prompted a fresh round...
While pulling up flooring in my home a years ago, I found some old newspapers. It is endlessly interesting to read things from the past, such as the price of bread (8 pence) or to read of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's first ascent of...
