03 Nov The Path Before You
A plane has a flight path which is set. It also has a runway, a determined place to land. Are our lives like that? Is there a path determined for us to fly along, and a place determined for us to land at? Here is what...
Devotion
27 Oct Which God Do You Worship?
In Abraham's day everyone loved idols. In fact it seemed to be the way of the whole world. No matter what age of history, archaeologists are always digging up idols. Idols in the Palaeolithic era. Idols in the Neolithic era. Idols in the Chalcolithic era. Idols in the Bronze...
08 Oct The Trinity Doesn’t Make Sense
Walking in the woods recently I spotted a tree with three stems. It was clearly one tree, but also sort of like three trees at the same time. Technically this would be called a 'multi-stem' tree, and its a common enough thing. Immediately I thought...
02 Oct Why Forgive 490 Times?
When the disciples asked Jesus 'how many times should I forgive?' they even suggested what seemed like a generous answer to their own question...
17 Sep Do Christians Keep Sabbath?
Like many things in the Old Testament, they were a physical thing setup by God to help us get at (ie understand) a more complicated concept, which without the initial setup we would not have grasped. Indeed, even with the physical example to use as...
15 Sep The Importance of Confession
It’s not quite as simple as saying ‘if you don’t confess, you won’t be forgiven.’ The reason this is true is because the cross of Christ is timeless and he went to the calvary for all sins, for all time. And when he died for you,...
12 Sep Should You Re-read the Bible?
Most people don't read books more than once. Once you have read a book, say for example Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, you now know the story. You know the ending, the suspense is no longer there, the plot is unveiled and the literary features...
10 Sep Why We Change But God Doesn’t
The Bible tell us that 'Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.' Hebrews 13:8. And later in the Old Testament we have God saying, 'I am the Lord, I do not change.' Malachi 3:6 One of the attributes of God in theology is his unumutable nature,...
08 Sep A Perspective on Devotion
Believers are encouraged to be devoted to Christ, and in line with that to partake in daily devotions, a time of reading the scriptures and praying. But consider this scripture from Romans 12:10 'Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.' (NIV) The...
04 Sep Did Jesus Know about Trauma?
Most people have been through things that are traumatic. Some are severe, like serving in war, or a childbirth that goes wrong, or being raised by abusive parents, or being bullied at school. Sometimes Christians are persecuted for their faith. Others are born at the...