Category: Church Matters

“Christian hope”, said Pope Francis, “is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and

My experience of the Bible is that time and again words leap out of the page with new significance and

Recently I was struck by one of the Beatitudes in Luke’s version of the Sermon on the Mount. For in

As I wrote in Living out the Call: Book One – Living for God’s Glory, “There is in the Christian

Book of the month For 40 + years many preachers have relied upon the commentaries in IVP’s The Bible Speaks

I have just looked at the latest set of church statistics and they make for sobering reading – and they

The other week I wrote to a friend: “I have been wondering how God would have me serve him in

Last week we looked at the epiphany of Christ, and the way in which Paul described his appearing in 2

Epiphany, traditionally January 6th, is the day in the church’s year when the ‘appearance’ of God to the world in

On Monday morning 1st December the phone went at 2.30. It was a nurse informing me that my 98-year-old mother