The answer to agnosticism
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…
Mythmas
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…
Advent shock
“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 the completer-finisher
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…
Missionaries’ rights
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…
Thinking about war
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…
An uncomfortable truth
The Apostle Paul starts his great presentation of the Christian gospel in a most uncomfortable way:The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against the godlessness and wickedness of…
Only Christians are interested in evidence
In our blog post two weeks ago I drew attention to these words in John’s gospel: Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded…
Ebola
What would Jesus say about the Ebola epidemic? How are we to understand it given that we have an all-powerful Creator God?We must be careful NOT to give pat, know-all answers. We…
No leap in the dark
Is Christian faith a leap in the dark? Is faith what you have when reason runs out?The Bible says no. There is every reason to become a Christian.Towards the end of…