The world is hurting. There is a good chance that if you aren’t directly affected by the coronavirus, you know someone who is. There is a lot of fear and uncertainty across the globe. Philip Yancey in his brilliant book, Where is God when it hurts? says: “Today, if I had to answer the question…
“Social distancing”, “self-isolation”; these are words many of us had never heard until a few weeks ago and now they are mentioned hundreds of times each day on our news channels. A coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented event for many of us. Many countries like the UK are past being able to contain the virus….
My wife and I recently had to take away my 7-year old son’s playing cards. He had been experiencing a string of vivid nightmares and we also observed that his behaviour had been slightly odd recently. Having prayed about it, the Holy Spirit revealed to us that the cards were not right for him. So…
In an earlier post on the importance of discerning truth, I made a statement that God’s Word is unambiguous. G. K. Chesterton once said that “the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” I believe he is right. I have certainly found the Christian ideal…
“…you will know the truth and the truth will set you free”. Those are the famous words of Jesus as recorded in John 8:32. So, what do you know and has it set you free? Or put differently, are you enslaved to anything – drugs, alcohol, pornography, sex, power and so on? Is your identity…
I was watching the news one evening last week and a news report came up about the conflict in Syria. It showed deserted war-torn streets where several houses had been reduced to rubble. The news anchor mentioned that several thousand people had been killed and an even greater number had fled their homes because of…
While casually humming the popular song, “God is so good to me” recently, a thought occurred to me: “why is God good?” There is a myriad of answers here but my thoughts drifted to God’s system of government. The Bible presents God as the sovereign King [Psalm 47:7], which makes His system of government a…
Matthew, in his gospel, captures Jesus’ final teaching on the future before His crucifixion. In Matthew 24, Jesus provides answers to questions from His apostles on His return, when the world will end, and signs that the world is about to end. And in the next chapter, Matthew captures what Jesus expects His followers to…
Last week, a famous basketball superstar, his 13-year old daughter and 7 others lost their lives tragically in a helicopter crash. I can’t imagine the pain of his wife, their children and the rest of his family. Colleagues, acquaintances, commentators alike are struggling to find the words to describe their shock at such a personality…
I once heard a preacher say, his troubles increased when he became a Christian. Some may recoil at that because there are people out there who have presented Christianity as a problem-free life. This is neither reality nor biblical. Jesus warned His followers that they will have trouble and suffering [John 16:33] and in the…