As Christians we are burdened and tasked with the great privilege & duty of sharing the life-giving Gospel. We have to share it wherever God places us, and with whoever God puts in our path. It perhaps used to be the case that the Christians on the Island wouldn’t normally come into contact with people of…
Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” How many of us have heard this verse used in public prayer? How many of us are guilty of using this verse in our own public prayer? I certainly am, until recently I would happily repeat this wonderful…
Read more Five misused Bible verses: Number One, Matthew 18:20
“We are nothing more than the result of evolution, born out of primordial ooze which started on a planet in a universe that was nothing more than a collection of elements that came from a random expansion some 14 billion years ago.” This is a quote from my last post, as it is quoted here…
Gaelic is a notoriously difficult language to learn, this is partly due to it’s grammatical structures, take, for example, this common phrase: “Alba gu bràth” = Scotland forever That’s all well and good, if not a bit cheesy, but countless times I have seen it written as: “Alba gu brath” = Scotland (for) spy/ Scotland…
Revelation 3 verses 1 to 6 There are plenty of reasons for us to worry about the state of the Churches in our country, most of the news looks bad, and the prospects might not seem much better. But in these verses we see a Church that Jesus himself called dead, but he did not…
Read more “The lights are on, but the Spirit’s not home…”: The Church of Sardis
Psalm 119 is divided into 22 different sections. With each section containing 8 verses, the first letter of each verse is the letter which gives its name to the section. Each section title are the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. More than likely this was to aid in the memorisation of the Psalm, all they…
Read more Psalm 119 verse 54 (Part One): “Thy statutes have been my songs…”
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.” – Hebrews 2 verse 17 The first office (or role) of Christ we can look at is that…
