Month: April 2020

The Name of Jesus

From my Messianic friend Ben at Hebrew Shalom An explanation of the name Jesus. The name Jesus is not a translation of the Hebrew , but rather a transliteration. It is a transliteration into Greek and then into English. So second hand transliteration. If it were translated , then it would be ‘Salvation’. Translation – […]

Storms of Life

Just before the “lockdown” we had quite a bad storm. It reminded me of something I had read about in the 16th century. An Orkney fisherman stood on a cliff watching the worst storm of his lifetime destroying his cottage, boat and all his fishing equipment. He couldn’t understand how the God he worshipped could […]

Tozer: The Pastor’s Pastor

A.W.(Aiden Wilson) Tozer was born on this day (21 April) 1897. He was perhaps the most profound mystic that evangelicals have ever produced. In spite of little formal education he was ordained in 1920 and after several small pastorates he moved to Southside Alliance Church in Chicago and remained there until 1959 when he moved […]