18th September 2020 “Be at peace with each other.” “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love.” “Honour one another above yourselves.” “Accept one another.” “Carry each other’s burdens.” “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other.” “Encourage one another and build each other up.” “Spur one another on towards...
Read more11th September 2020 Have you noticed how people in the public eye say sorry – or don’t say sorry – for what they’ve done? We saw an example last Sunday night, when Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open tennis. He lost a service game and, in his frustration, he took a ball from
Read more4th September 2020 It’s hard to escape thinking about power. Quite simply, we need power to get things done. Most of us feel pretty powerless most of the time, and we’d like a little more power. At the same time, we fear others having too much power. Power is useful, even necessary, but it’s
Read more28th August 2020 Isn’t online church great? You can watch when you like, with whom you like. You can wear what you like. You can fast forward through the bits you don’t like. You can even skip a week, or go to another church, and nobody will know. Actually, you can probably tell, I
Read more7th August 2020 Why didn’t we see this coming? That’s the question that Olga Khazan asks, writing in April in The Atlantic magazine. Her article bears the title, Humans are too Optimistic to Comprehend the Coronavirus: Why Americans didn’t see the pandemic coming. So, she explains, instead of stocking up on PPE and testing equipment,
Read more31st July 2020 A few years ago I did an online course in biblical counselling, called The Dynamics of Biblical Change. David Powlison would begin his lectures by exegeting a hymn – talking us through it and showing us what it means, much as we do with a Bible passage. I’m not suggesting that hymn
Read more24th July 2020 On 17th July, J I Packer died at the age of 93, and went to be with his Lord – as one person put it, “a great loss for the Church on earth, and a great joy for the Church in Heaven.” Another described him as one of the three great giants
Read more17th July 2020 “Let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” So wrote the author of Hebrews to his Christian
Read more10th July 2020 We had a very special evening a week ago when we had all our mission partners in conversation via Zoom. If you were there for it, you’ll know how good it was, and you’ll be glad to hear more from it. If you weren’t able to make it, I’d like to give
Read more3rd July 2020 It seemed unlikely that anyone would be interested in watching someone insert numbers into a grid. Yet that’s what thousands of us did a couple of months ago when we watched Simon Anthony solve a ‘miracle’ Sudoku puzzle. The classic Sudoku puzzle involves putting the numbers 1 to 9 into a 9×9
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