Category: Church Matters

Like any other minister, I have read time and again John’s account of the calling of the first two disciples

Mary Magdalene “stood weeping outside the tomb” (John 19.11). Her tears were not just because Jesus was dead, but rather

Crucifixion was an awful agonising death. Yet strangely the New Testament gives few details about the torture involved. The one

Some 2000 years ago Jesus said to a handful of disciples: “I will build my church and the powers of

“No man is an island”, declared John Donne.  We are made to relate to others.  “It is not good for

Every young mother thinks her child is special. There is no other child as beautiful or as clever as her

Some months ago I revisited the town where for over 13 years I had been the pastor of the local

This term at Breakfast with the Bible we have been studying the ‘Psalms of Ascent’ (Psalm 120 – 134). I

Just as I am, without one plea But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidd’st me

I belong to a small home group, which currently is studying The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium), an amazingly