What shall we do? There’s a difficulty in reading that question. You can guess what it is. The words themselves are as simple and straightforward as can be. A little child can understand them. But a mere printing of them conveys nothing of the tone. How is the question being asked? In boredom? Curiosity? Fear? Read more
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Faith in Focus
What’s the point? It caught my eye immediately – a full page photo of a man sitting on a step, a pensive look on his face. Above him, in large letters, the question that heads this article, “What’s the point?” And then a few words of explanation: “It is perhaps the biggest question of them […]Read more
Whatever Else Changes What has changed for you this year? Maybe a great deal. It’s so often how it is with us. Things can be very different at the end of a year from what they were at the beginning. And often these changes are unwelcome. A loved one no longer with us. A major […]Read more
When Love Means Saying Hard Things Can a preacher tell his hearers in a nice way they are sinners? If he can, I’ve still to find it. There is no justification for saying it self-righteously. The preacher is as truly a sinner as those he is addressing and it becomes him to speak with humility. […]Read more
When Wicked Men Die It was a memorable text for a memorable occasion. My friend was preaching on the Sunday after the overthrow and execution of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989, and this was the verse on which he based his sermon: “I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like Read more
Who are we? On Sunday evenings in Grace Baptist Church we’re grappling with one of the most important questions we can ever ask: who are we as human beings? And here is where we are going for the answer: the Bible. It’s the last place in the world your average 21st Century man or woman […]Read more
Will there ever be an end to war? August 2014, as many of you know, marks the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War One. One hundred years ago today the major powers of Europe were at war with each other. It was confidently anticipated that it would be over by Christmas. Instead, […]Read more
Will we ever be done with death? One of the Old Testament Psalms pictures people being swept away “in the sleep of death”. Later they are said to be “like the new grass of the morning: in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered” (Psalm 90.4-5). Vivid images of a life […]Read more
You are not beyond repair Back in 1972 there was an incident in the Vatican that sent shock waves through the art world. A man went berserk with a hammer and severely damaged a priceless marble sculpture called the Pieta. The Pieta depicts the Virgin Mary supporting the dead body of her Son, the Lord […]Read more