Meditation: God’s Holiness
God is Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. God is not just holy; he is thrice holy. “Holy, holy, holy is […]
Meditation: God is Just
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. If I were to ask you what the right punishment is for […]
Meditation: God is Truth
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. We live in a world where fake news is a thing. Several […]
Social Media and Spiritual Warfare: Part 1
Social media has allowed us to keep in touch with friends and family across the globe, discover new information and meet people with similar interests. But at what price? Let […]
A Perceptive Tailor
The middle-aged tailor stood at his bench-top, measuring out a suit when my husband and I entered. Like most tailors in Pakistan, he worked hard for a living and spent […]
Okay, Now What’s the Good News?
We never get a choice about what assails us first. You can count on the bad news being at the head of the line. In fact, distressing reports generally take […]
The Attributes of God: All Wise
Wisdom is not the same as knowledge. Wisdom is the ability to apply knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge worked out to achieve your goals. God certainly knows all things. He has […]
John Knox: A Man of Prayer
John Knox was a man of prayer. John Knox was not a self-confident man. He deeply sensed his own weakness and unfitness to his task. He once said, “I have […]
God is Infinite – He is without limits
Isaiah 40:22. It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads […]
Today’s Quick Word: October 28
2 Kings 9:20 The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi – he drives like a […]
Not All Heroes Make Masks
Jonathan Bryd is someone hardly anyone has heard about. But he is one of the unsung heroes of COVID-19. Daniel M. Doriani tells the story in his excellent new book, Work […]
I Remember When…Christians fared well at college
My only taste of secular tertiary education was in 1962-3 at Wagga Teachers College. It was a vastly different era to the present time. In 1962 there were eight Teachers […]
Our God of Immeasurable Grace
(Luke 8.2; Mark 15.40; John 20.11; Gal.2.20) Tell me who is he I see walking gentlylike the dew before dawn in the garden,while the fearless mockingbird sings its delights beneath […]
In my Soul lies a sweet contentment
Stay and watch with meO Gentle EmmanuelIn the depth of my spiritThough I can only see your faceThrough your obtuse glassThe mysteries and playthings of GodThe dark stars and spheresand […]
Beggars in Need of Help (Psalm 28:2)
We expect life to be normal, by which we think of something resembling Utopia. However, we find it full of troubles, and it dislocates our thinking. Christians have an explanation […]
Jonah: Pursuit, Preaching, Providence (and Promise)
The book of Jonah is one of the best-known stories in the Bible, but it is often relegated to children’s books and Sunday School colouring pages. Jonah seems to have […]