War has captured the imagination of poets, authors and artists. Mainly because of the great themes of human emotion that all seem to find a place on the battlefield, but also because the average person needs to be transported to the battlefield. We don’t know what war is like so we need these artists to […]
When we ask God, “Why is there so much suffering?” we are not really asking for a logical answer as to the existence of suffering… we are more than likely asking a personal question “Why am I suffering?” And it is to this question that the bible doesn’t have a clear and neat answer. Instead […]
What is the greatest danger to the church? Some people might think that the greatest danger to the church comes from external pressures like secularisation, or progressive ideologies or perhaps even the threat of radical Islam. However, Peter writes that the greatest danger to the church doesn’t come from external pressures, but rather, from within […]
They say love is a fool’s game… because it seems foolish to keep thrusting our hope and heart on relationships that can easily let us down. But it is not just in love that we play this foolish game. All too often we try to find hope, security or satisfaction in things that can so […]
“No, you can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you find you get what you need” Christmas is a time when we can reflect on how true this statement Is. The things that we want are often not the thing that we need. In the book of Isaiah, God spoke a […]
Many of us may have found ourselves in situation where everyone around us expects us to believe in God but we just don’t feel it ourselves. In this situation maybe we knew of our doubts but were too afraid to admit it, so we just talked a good talk and coasted under the radar as […]
In most of our life we don’t tend to think about death. But every now and then we get a chilling reminder that death is not an abstract concept for us humans… it is a very real reality and our very certain destiny. Now while a sermon of death doesn’t seem that edifying, the fact Ecclesiastes […]
While the book of Proverbs has shown us the good paths of wisdom that God calls us to walk and how following the voice of folly will lead to our demise, it hasn’t given us the whole story. We know that life is far more complex than Proverbs can make it out to be… that […]
All of us are looking for a kingdom, not a stereotypical kingdom with a castle and a mote, but we want to set our lives up to be safe, prosperous, and secure. The people of the first century were likewise tempted to build a life of security and safety for themselves but because they had […]
“You’ve just got to have faith.” This is often the way we end conversations about how it is we believe in an unseen God. But all too often it feels like a cop out. I mean what is faith anyway? Well as the preacher of Hebrews continues to plead with his people to cling to […]