I received a disturbing email this morning. A well known Christian ministry, which I shall not name, had decided that now was the right time to launch an appeal to help the Ukraine. What’s wrong with that, you might ask? Well this ministry’s campaign was to raise enough money to create a brand new website with their own translated material to bless the Ukrainians with the gospel. I understand the sentiment, but as the Bible says “there is a time... Read more
I was recently reading Psalm 37 and saw something I had not seen before. Jesus seems to have been alluding to this psalm in his famous line in the beatitudes “The Meek will inherit the Earth”. This teaching is of course as counter cultural now as it was when Jesus preached or when King David wrote. But what I hadn’t noticed is that David describes the attributes of these meek people who will be blessed, happy, fortunate, and who will... Read more
When our own country says it has sent a special force to bring freedom to a failed nation that is practicing atrocities or poses a threat due to weapons of mass destruction. Other nations sometimes see it as just an unprovoked, illegal, unjustified invasion. We in the West have often persuaded ourselves before that wars far from our shores are justified. Looking back we may not feel quite so certain in some cases. It is striking how similar some of... Read more
The idea of obeying someone, anyone, doesn’t sit kindly with us Westerners these days. Most of our countries have got rid of their Kings and Queens, or if like us in the UK we have kept them, the one thing they do not get to do is command us any more. Lots of controversy rages these days about things like mask or vaccine mandates. Essentially we do not like to be told what to do. And of course much of... Read more
Well this has been the longest blogging break I’ve taken since 2003 when I started writing daily. Does anyone still manage to write personal reflections daily I wonder? Does anyone still want to read another person’s reflections daily? Though to be fair I have not been totally silent these last months. I have written material over at blood cancer Uncensorsd. But it’s different writing for fellow blood cancer patients than it is for a mostly Christian general set of... Read more
Anyone who has a chronic illness and Christian friends is likely to have heard the words “keep strong!” They are normally well meaning words. And in one sense there is nothing wrong with them. And yet they annoy me a bit each time they are said to me. Sometimes other people will say something like “Oh you are strong, I admire you. I don’t know how you cope”. I often wish I could take them back to points in the... Read more
There is no point me retelling the story of what happened in the nineteen days between getting sick with pneumonia and the 20 May 2017, the day my diagnosis with blood cancer was confirmed. Suffice to say that each year since the gap between the 28 April when I first became sick and the date my diagnosis was finally confirmed seems incredibly long. I retold the story quite clearly and reasonably succinctly a year ago exactly today: A blood cancer... Read more
When we think of the needs of the whole world we can be paralysed. Yet God sometimes puts a specific individual across your path that he intends for you to help. This article has come across your path so you can demonstrate God’s love for one such person and help save their life. Often Christians are committed to being pro-life before birth. It is vital that we show we are pro-life for all of life. And so this is... Read more
I know that my view is going to be unpopular with some of my white American Evangelical readers. But I am very glad that George Floyd’s killer cop has been found guilty. This verdict is a vital step in bringing peace and reconciliation to the nation, and even to the World. This was a case that rightly impacted the globe. I have never seen my brother, pastor, and friend Tope Koleoso so profoundly moved as he was speaking about this... Read more
I am a big sinner saved by even bigger grace. Declared righteous once for all but please be patient with me as I am a work in progress, and there wss a lot that needed fixing up! One day me and my Master will be done at this building project in which we are following His plans togeher. In the meantime expect disappointments from me as for now I am only human. One day I will be holy as He... Read more
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