Having a good time?

This is the next in my series looking at ‘purpose’. I suspect that for most of us enjoying ourselves – having a good time – is at least part of what we seek in life. For some it will be the main thing. We have one life, so why not enjoy it? So is maximizing […]

New Year, New … ?

Another new year has started. For many people a new year is a positive time. A time for new beginnings and to reflect on the past year (or years!). A chance to make some changes so that life runs a little more as you want it to. And for this we have the new year’s […]

Solar system or neural network?

Some time ago, I gave the talk for one of our occasional ‘men’s breakfasts’ at church. I spoke on the topic of ‘Connections and Complexity’, looking at how complexity arises in systems of many interconnected elements, even where those individual elements are fairly simple. I looked at a few different complex systems that are of […]

For whose glory?

Many of the great heroes of the Bible were humble people. They weren’t out to get fame for themselves, or the admiration of their peers. Think of Moses, who was reluctant to move away from his role as an obscure shepherd in the wilderness to confront Pharaoh as leader of Israel. He is described as: […]

Love and kindness ?

Perhaps it’s time I look a bit at what I think about ‘Christian Unity’ when faced with those who would say they are Christians, but who probably think rather differently about their faith than me. I enjoy going for runs, and for the last few years I have used my jogging time to listen to […]

Objections

This unity is all very well, but what about … While the principle of Christian unity is one that few will have objections to, how it works out in practice is another matter. For some, unity is fine as long as it means that ‘others’ change what they believe and how they live out their […]

How God has spoken to me about Christian togetherness

In my last blog post I looked at some of what the Bible has to say about Christian unity, or Christian togetherness as I may often now call it for reasons which I also explained in the last blog post. I now want to share something about why this is something I feel strongly about, […]

What does the Bible say about Christian Unity?

There are many ways of working out what we believe about an issue that impacts our faith as Christians. We may look at our personal experience and see what has proved to be true in our own life. We can look at the examples of ‘great’ Christians of the past and what they had to […]

Together ?

Christians often talk about how God has spoken to them. I certainly believe that God speaks to us. Preeminently this is through the Bible, God’s written word, but he also speaks in other ways, through other people, circumstances, an inner voice, dreams, even on occasion literally through a voice speaking etc. But we have to […]

My Mum – a Tribute

The day after I published my previous blog post I received an early morning phone call to tell me that my Mum had died that morning in her sleep. Although she had been getting more frail over the last few years, her death was still totally unexpected. In a Covid-19 dominated time, we were able […]