I am sure you have seen the poster. “The meek shall inherit the earth – if that’s OK with everybody else.” I am told…
Month: April 2016
Deuteronomy 20 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be…
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…