Deuteronomy 20 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be…
Author: peter
At first sight it is not obvious how passages like Deuteronomy 19 apply to the world of the 21st Century. It is a complicated…
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. So says Jesus in the second of the Beatitudes, eight sayings right at the…
Whose side is God on? Right on the back of the crisis of migrants and asylum seekers, this week’s scandal of tax-dodging and offshore…
One of the good things about preaching from an unfamiliar book of the Bible is you come across things you wouldn’t normally have thought…
“What makes you believe that God exists?” “Is Jesus the only way to God?” Here are just two of the questions which Christians will…
Luke 20 9 He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went…
MALACHI 3: 8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings.…
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.…
Some passages of Deuteronomy are hard to apply today because they seem to belong to a bygone age, the Old Covenant of the Law…
Joseph was the saviour of Egypt. Another happy ending! Even Jacob and his other 11 sons came to Egypt to buy food from Joseph.…
What is the difference between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament? Of course that is a trick…
There are 2 truths which we need to keep in minds at once and cling to equally firmly: mustn’t neglect either! 1. God loves…
You could sum up Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Weber’ version of Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat in one sentence something like this. “The story…
When he died at the age of 120, the whole nation of Israel wept and mourned for Moses for thirty days. And we read…
What have Joseph, Abimelech, Jacob, Solomon,and Daniel in common? Oh and Abraham, Laban, the apostle Paul, Joseph the carpenter, the wise men, and Pilate’s…
The turning point in the film Excalibur is the day when all the battles are won. There is one land and one king, King…
Some bits of the Bible shock us – it is right that they do! They help us to see truths we would otherwise miss.…
One of my earliest memories of television are the comedy films of Laurel and Hardy. Do you remember their most famous catchphrase? Ollie would…
In Britain in the 21st Century it is getting harder to be a Christian and even harder to preach the gospel. Persecution of the…
My old Home Group leader had a favourite expression to sum up the sorry state of humanity. Barry was a teacher, so knew humanity…