The parable of the sheep and the goats is one of the best known of Jesus’s stories. Sadly it is also one of those…
Category: Parables
This week two entrepreneurs will go face to face in the final episode of what is astonishingly the 16th UK series of the reality…
It is a scene I have seen in Uganda and in Zambia and in Bulgaria. It is multiplied in many places over Eastern Europe…
How many people have you given help to over the years? How many hours or days have you spent with people who were going…
The parable of the persistent widow is a beautiful little parable about perseverance and prayer. It appears simple, but actually it is very profound…
Being as old as I am, over the years I have collected a few friends who are quite famous. I once asked one of…
If there is one job I would not have wanted to do in the Middle East in New Testament times, it would have been…
Do you ever feel like giving up in the Christian life? It’s too hard. It’s too much effort. God seems to be blessing other…
Matthew 18:3 And Jesus said: : ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom…
One of the things I miss about most about being a schoolteacher is the incredibly inventive excuses children make up. • I was late…
Do you remember that hilarious sketch on Comic Relief from a few years ago where comedian James Corden was telling the England football team…
God has blessed us in so many ways! He has forgiven our sins and given us new life, life in all its fullness, eternal…
Matthew 13:31-33 Do you ever feel like giving up in the Christian life? It’s too hard. It’s too much effort. God seems to be…
Matthew 13:1-9 In this envelope is something worth more than you can possibly imagine. It isn’t the deeds to a new house. It isn’t…
A fair day’s pay It is a scene I have found in Uganda and in Bulgaria. It is multiplied all over Eastern Europe and…
LOST and FOUND Luke 15 When I was young we had family holidays on a farm in Devon with Farmer Pugsley and Mrs Pugsley.…
Become like little children Matt 18:1-10 090222A Matt 18:3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little…