From the pen of Sue Adams, a friend in Brighton, Sussex. Romans 8 : 1-2 “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.” Paul Geidel Jr served the longest […]
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 […]
We have been on holiday this week – at home! About a month ago we put a line through this week in our diaries and haven’t accepted any appointments or engagements. It has been marvellous – log fires every evening with a good book or film. I’ve read Douglas Botting’s biography of Gerald Durrell, an […]
After a very wild teenage in Bloomsbury – It is just about 65 years since I discovered the God of the Bible. And it has been a marvellous adventure since then. I am very aware that this is not a position that I share with much of society and the media but I am happy […]
It is funny (No that is absolutely the wrong word because it is very serious) that people get the wrong idea about the Ten Commandments and see them as something we must obey if we want to have any hope of salvation. Nothing could be further from the truth. From beginning to end the Bible […]
There is only one verse we can look at today. You may find it rather surprising! “On the first day of the month were tops of the mountains seen,”(Genesis 8:5). The month here in Hebrew is the tenth month and that corresponds to our January. On the ark what an exciting discovery that must have […]
Winston Churchill once said of a political opponent, “ He has a genius for compressing a minimum of thought into a maximum of words.” The Apostle Paul on the other hand, had the genius for concentrating brilliant pen-portraits in very few words. For example: “Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker” (Philippians 2:23). Epaphroditus is my […]
I’ve still got in mind a theme we looked at the other day, “Out of weakness were made strong,”(Hebrews 11:34). Is ill-health something that haunts you? Are you of nervous disposition – and know you are certainly not made of hero stuff? Think of Miss Frances Havergal – Spurgeon described her as “the sweetest of […]
“Out of weakness were made strong,”(Hebrews 11:34). I am a voracious reader of biography. I suppose few biographies have influenced Christians more in the last hundred years than Hudson Taylor’s and D.L. Moody’s. What was their secret? Here it is in Moody’s own words, “The Lord was looking for a man WEAK enough to use, […]
Mark has a very vivid way of describing things. Nowhere, more so, than in his account of Jesus visiting the Gadarenes (Mark 5:1) where he sets a man free who is possessed by demons. I’ve only ever seen demon-possession once – in Dick Lucas’s study at St Helen’s Bishopsgate in London – 50 years ago […]
