Author: Alasdair Paine

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends! (Philippians 4:1, NIV)The Christian gospel…

Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church…

The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.  (Psalm 23:1, NIV)As 2015 arrives, none of us knows what to expect personally: what ups and downs will the new year bring? That…

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become…

No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. (John 1:18, NIV)Why are people atheists and agnostics?Many who…

The biggest trouble with Christmas is that truth and myth get mixed in the blender. Magi, Santa, the angel, reindeer, shepherds, snow and even penguins get whooshed up together.What comes out…

“This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”  (Acts 1:11, NIV)Advent is about…

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed…

Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the…

Have you seen the poppies at the Tower of London?  Gradually, the moat is being filled with 888,246 ceramic poppies - one for each British fatality during the First World…