1 Tim 2:8-15 A very foreign text… As you can probably imagine, this is a sermon I have been a little apprehensive about delivering. There are not many passages that generate more debate, emotion and division, and I feel …
1 Timothy 1:1-11 Promoting Love? Saying you want to promote a loving community is a safe thing to say isn’t it. You’re on to a winner! No one’s going to disagree. But what’s the best way to actually promotelove …
1 Samuel 28 Failure to Accept the Situation I remember my first proper ‘getting older’ injury from playing sport. I was only in my early twenties, still at university. I still had the mindset that my body could do …
1 Samuel 21-24 How do you respond to adversity? Many of you will be familiar with the terrible condition known as ‘man flu’. For some reason, us males seem to crumble in a heap when we get a cold …
1 Samuel 17 Facing challenges… When it comes to ‘keeping on top of life’ – you know, tidying up the house, sorting through endless piles of paperwork and kids paintings, fixing stuff that’s broken, cleaning floors, kitchens and bathrooms, washing …
The call to convert… In my experience one of the most common objections to religion is the idea of exclusivity: I’ve got the truth and you don’t, and so you need to join MY religion. In our culture this comes …
How could a good and loving God be in charge of a world with so much suffering? The problem of evil and suffering In the last few weeks I’ve finished reading a novel, All the light we cannot see,which …
God Vs Science – Do you have to pick a team? In answer to the question ‘Can you believe in God and science at the same time?’, ‘Bobby Wyatt’ gives the number one answer on Quora.com: “I don’t think so. …
Revelation 20:11-21:8 Judgement Day: Far Better and Worse… I remember when I was a young teenager, I had this idea that on the final day, when everyone had to face up to God, it would basically be a massive …
