The story of Cain & Abel is a story of competition, pride, jealousy, and ultimately about true motivations towards God and others. Abel had a good motivation towards God, made a true sacrifice, and God considered him righteous. Jesus said so in Matthew 23:35. But Cain...
During one of Jesus' visits to Jerusalem for the Passover, many people saw the miracles he did and wanted to follow him. But Johns gospel records the following: 'But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not need any...
Genesis 3 describes 'the Fall,' and event so cataclysmic on creation that the atomic bomb of Hiroshima pales into comparison. In one moment a bomb about ten feet long, called 'little boy' detonated and destroyed 13 square kilometres of city, and countless lives with it. ...
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...
