Author: Alasdair Paine

All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy…

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live in unity!(Psalm 133:1, NIV)On our summer holidays this year we visited the fabulous Isle of Lewis and Harris in the…

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.(Ephesians 1:3 NIV)It’s often said…

When you come, bring the cloak I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments. (2 Timothy 4:13, NIV)Was it writing paper, personal notebooks or favourite books that…

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.  It would be better for them to…

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning…

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the…

There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.  And he answered them, “Do you think that…

When he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!  I will set out…

When [Ahab] saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have.…