Abortion – God’s right to choose We start with the all-important question of ownership. To whom, as human beings, do we belong? You may respond by saying, “I don’t belong to anyone!” But you’re wrong. By virtue of the fact that God is our Creator every last one of us belongs to him. “The earth […]Read more
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Grace Baptist Church
Absolutely the best of days It will never catch on. I know it. Good Friday will continue to be called Good Friday without so much as a backward glance. So why go to the trouble of suggesting a new name for it? It has all to do with Good Friday being good. Why call it […]Read more
An Outstanding First President It was the name that first piqued my interest: Charles Nisbet. Nisbet is one of my middle names and I wondered if this might be a fellow Scot, perhaps even a distant relation. I was right about the first. Not so sure about the second! Charles Nisbet was born in the […]Read more
Back to Basics What would we find if we could go back to the beginnings of marriage? It’s increasingly believed that marriage is nothing more than a human idea. We ourselves invented it. We are totally free, therefore, to make our own rules for it. Should a marriage be for life? That’s up to us. […]Read more
Beware of tomorrow! I wonder if you’re familiar with the following proverbs. They each have to do with tomorrow. What is tomorrow? It is, says one proverb, “the day when the idle man works, and the fool reforms”. Or it is, says the other, “a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers […]Read more
Blessed Either Way I begin with a confession: I am incurably British. I drink British tea, listen to British radio, write with British-bought ink, my sermons are on British-sized notepaper, and I keep a British diary. The diary is a page-to-a day job and I haven’t missed an entry in over twenty years. It’s my […]Read more
Can we believe in a God who is loving? To listen to some people, you’d think there’s nothing easier. But with others it’s different. They think of all the bad things that are going on – in their own lives and in the world – and they wonder how a God who allows these things […]Read more
Certainty for an Uncertain Future I wonder what your plans are for this new year. Some of you, I’m sure, have got a vacation booked and are counting down the weeks (or days). Perhaps there is a family wedding on the horizon or a special anniversary and you’re busy getting ready. If your home is […]Read more
Compelled by the Love of Christ Forty years ago this week, President Jimmy Carter brought together leaders from Egypt and Israel to conduct peace talks. After thirteen days of negotiations the summit resulted in what was officially titled the “Framework for Peace in the Middle East,” and is commonly known as Read more
Discovering the real and the true Ever paid a lot of money for something that turned out to be fake? That sometimes happens to people. They think that what they’ve bought is the genuine article and worth every cent they paid for it. Then they find out the truth. It isn’t genuine after all. They’ve […]Read more