As I mentioned last week the season of Advent is very much dominated by the extraordinary figure of John the Baptist – the forerunner,...

One of the dominant figures in the early chapters of the gospels and in this Advent, season is the figure of John the Baptist. "The...

“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be...

Church leaders are often confronted by those who assert that they don’t go to church because it is full of hypocrites. There is the...

”Jesus told them in a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.” Prayer is a problem for many of us. And certainly I...

Jesus walks to Jerusalem. I wonder how many of us ponder the significance of his walking? He set his face to go to Jerusalem (9.51) and...

“But the righteous live by their faith.” Most Christians believe that God is perfectly good and that he would therefore want to do...

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest...

But the Pharisees and teachers of the law muttered, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." When we look at the gospel stories...

One of the fascinating and interesting things about reading the bible is that it contains so many different types of writing or...