We saw two weeks ago great King David himself sinking deeper and deeper in the swamp of sin. How neglecting his responsibilities, boredom and…
The book of Revelation is written in apocalyptic language. It looks ahead to the coming end of days in language which is more often…
Revelation 12 was not written to try to convince comfortable Christians that there is a spiritual war on. The Christians reading the Book of…
Occasionally I wonder what I learned in 5 years studying theology. And the most important truth can be summed up in just 6 words.…
I grew up rambling in the Peak District every week and then in the Lake District every summer. The great danger walking in those…
C.S.Lewis once said, “Aim at heaven and you get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.” Christians don’t think…
Power. Wealth. Wisdom. Strength. Honour. Glory. Praise. These are all thing which very many people spend their lives chasing. And there is nothing wrong…
Pick the ten most important chapters in the whole of the Old Testament and 2 Samuel chapter 7 would be up there with the…
The city of Laodicea was prominent and wealthy, famed for its banks and its merchants, and for the manufacture of linen and the production…
The last couple of months have been among the toughest I can remember in the life of any church. Folk seriously ill and in…
Philadelphia is the smallest and the least significant of the seven towns and cities receiving letters from the Risen Christ in the book of…
Eleanor Rigby – picks up the rice in the church where a wedding had been, lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing…
Some wise words from the internet. “ Live churches are constantly changing. Dead churches don’t have to. Live churches have lots of noisy kids.…
In the Sermon on the Mount the Lord Jesus Christ says this: Matthew 5:44 Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,…
Tell me three things God does. You might say God loves, God creates, God forgives, God saves, God provides, God heals. It might take…
THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF GIANTS IN THE WORLD – things to make us afraid. David and Goliath is not a story about COURAGE…
12 ‘To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. 13 I…
2 Corinthians 9:7 says this. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion,…
One of the most famous church leaders in the second century was Polycarp of Smyrna, a city in Turkey. Polycarp was one of the…
The letters to the Seven Churches in the book of Revelation started as a circular letter to that group of churches in Asia Minor.…
There is a question I am sometimes asked. “Can I be a Christian without belonging to a church?” Somebody once said. “Trying to live…