There is a clear and simple way to understand the number 666 in the Bible. It does however take some background to explain. In English we have separate symbols for our numbers. So 1 = one, and 2 = two and so on. But in Greek...
The word 'church' is used in the English language in many different ways. For example it is used to describe a building. You might hear someone giving directions, saying 'the old stone church is just across the river.' Or, it can be used to describe a denomination...
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...
You can’t see God. He is a spirit (see John 4:24) so he isn't visible to us unless he does something to make himself visible. But Colossians is saying that because in seeing Jesus you see God. It isn’t that Jesus in his physical appearance represents...
The book of Revelation is apocalyptic - full of symbols - and at times hard to understand. But not all of it. The part of the book of Revelation which is written in plain language is actually the component where John is told to write...
