When I did my National Service I was in the army and stationed in central London. I really just did office hours five days a week. It was during that time I met Dorothy L. Sayers. She was putting one of her religious plays on in the West End. I think it was called Emperor […]
Giles Gilbert Scott was a prolific 20th century designer creating such things as the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to the common- or-garden iconic red telephone box. Lofty or lowly – God call some people to places of great responsibility and some to humble, hidden places of great obscurity that never attract any attention. God judges both […]
From My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition by Oswald Chambers At that day ye shall ask in My name. JOHN 16:26 We are too much given to thinking of the Cross as something we have to get through; we get through it only in order to get into it. The Cross stands for one […]
I’ve been studying my Bible for 65 years yet almost daily I get excited by a new discovery. I was looking yesterday at Jeremiah 31:31 – so very familiar – “The times is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a NEW covenant with the house of Israel.” I don’t know why but I […]
Oh dear! Yesterday, my Bible on my lap fell open at James. Haven’t read it for some time. And there it was: “Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly”(James 3:1). I don’t presume – I am a teacher and […]
“The fruit of the Spirit is…..SELF CONTROL”(Gal 5:22). Paul illustrates this 9th virtue when writing to the Christians in Corinth where the Ithmian Games were held every 3 years. Before the contest every athlete had to submit himself to rigorous training. For 10 months he was under oath to keep to a prescribed diet and […]
“The fruit of the Spirit is…..MEEKNESS”(Gal 5:22). We are taught with such emphasis at school that adjectives qualify nouns and we forget the reverse is true. And the reverse is certainly true when the noun is “Jesus” and the adjective is “meek.” If we think of meekness without taking Jesus into account, then straightaway the […]
“The fruit of the Spirit is…FAITHFULNESS”. (Gal 5:22). Jesus did not ask his followers to be clever or successful, but he did require them to be reliable and trustworthy. So it is not surprising that faithfulness is in the list of the fruit of the Spirit. Strictly speaking the word in Galatians is “faith” which […]
“The fruit of the Spirit is…..GOODNESS”(Galatians 5:22). J.B. Lightfoot suggests that “kindness” refers to a kind disposition, whereas “goodness” refers to kindness in action. Some people think it a rather fuddy-duddy word and make fun of it. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called “Too True to be Good.” The main character was Private Meek; […]
Paul encourages us to pray continually (1 Thess. 5:17). Why? To invite His presence/ peace/ healing/ rule into our daily lives and others. What does it mean to pray continually? Some clues given in Ephesians 6:18: Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be […]
