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Context, context, context

Context, context, context

What are the words you will most likely hear in a history lecture? Context is key I have had that ingrained in me ever since I began my history undergraduate some years ago. Yet, they are also the words we should be thinking about when we open the word and read scripture. Context is key. […]

Adoption: the most amazing but the most forgotten Christian doctrine

Adoption: the most amazing but the most forgotten Christian doctrine

God has many titles to us as Christians: Creator, King, Lord, Redeemer, Saviour. All awe-inspiring in their own right. But our relationship to God is even more tender and precious than that: ‘Father’, writes James Packer, ‘is the Christian name for God’.

Keep going

Keep going

There are many terrific quotes attributed to Winston Churchill, even discounting the ones erroneously given to him. For a man who ‘mobilised the English language and sent it to war’, Churchill did a good business inspiring turns of phrase to lead and motivate the British people through the dark times of the Second World War.

Does it matter what you wear to church?

Does it matter what you wear to church?

Are those who dress smartly in their ‘Sunday best’ for church just holding onto silly traditions? Does it matter what you wear when you worship God?

In heavenly love abiding: from acting to Christian ministry

In heavenly love abiding: from acting to Christian ministry

Paul and Elaine Harper were actors beginning to enter the ‘big time’ in their careers in the late 1960s. Theatre and TV work was coming their way. Paul had just had a big break as part of a very successful theatrical production in London’s West End. However, despite these successes, they both felt a gaping emptiness and growing unease.

The decline of the local church

The decline of the local church

Our prayer is that people would come into our churches from the local area, saved and unsaved, to add to our numbers. Yet, I’ve been troubled in recent months by the thought that many of us don’t go to churches local to us. Instead, we go to the ones which fit our specification and forget the little faithful congregation next door.

Dealing with doubts

Dealing with doubts

Doubts. We don’t often talk about them, but we all get them. We’re in a great spiritual war. Wherever a little green shoot of life pops up, you can bet your last Rolo that our enemy the devil will rush to jump on it. To survive, we must deal with our doubts and fight back.

The surprising genius of Jesus

The surprising genius of Jesus

Jesus was (and is) a genius. As a statement of fact that’s unlikely to surprise you, after all, He is the Son of God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords! And yet in a world where we’ve had Jesus’ teachings taught, analysed and criticised for the past two thousand years, sometimes we lose sight of the earth-shattering intellectual geniusness of Jesus’ message itself.

Whatever your problem(s), start with God

Whatever your problem(s), start with God

For believers, the ultimate end-point of everything is certain: an eternity with God in paradise. But that’s definitely not always how we start when confronted with a trial or problem in the day-to-day. To endure through dark times, we must take our eyes off of ourselves and our problem(s) and fix them instead on Christ Jesus.