Alive with Worship?
‘My soul is Alive with Worship’ is the line of the chorus of a Simon Brading (Newday Worship) song that we have sung a few times in Hope Church. I often wonder how ‘Alive with Worship’ some people feel at … Read More
More fools – the troublemaker, the sluggard, and the complacent
In my previous blog I introduced the concept from “The Way of Wisdom: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs ” by Timothy Keller, that if you want to grow in wisdom you have to stop being … Read More
The Holy Spirit Unites
This blog post links to a sermon preached on Sunday 14th October 2018 – Listen below Have you noticed how our society craves unity? Jeremy Corbyn turns up at Glastonbury and promises to unite the country. Football clubs bear … Read More
Being Colour Blind
In two separate contexts in the last week I have heard Christian leaders say that they are “colour blind”, by which they mean that when they look at someone they do not see their colour, or their background, they just … Read More
Babel and Pentecost rethought
For many years I had understood and taught that the day of Pentecost, Acts 2, where everyone heard the gospel in their own language was a reversal of the curse of Babel, Genesis 11, where God scattered the people across … Read More
Some Further Reflections On Sin
Seeing Sin as a power, rather than just things we do wrong has other implications and allows us to see things in the Bible differently. Writers from other cultures often see this more clearly than we do. Vishal Mangalwadi, an … Read More