The guardiansays : “Look on the dark side of life”, and seems to say we need to be realistic about lifes problems. I believe many Christians try and pretend everything will always be OK just because they are believers. This is not true. One promise of God people don’t often ‘name and claim’ is ‘In this world you will have troubles’. Wake up people, as much as we try and insulate ourselves fromt he possibility we will face difficulties- he... Read more

Rebecca Writes a fan of Lloyd-Jones and clearly a biblical scholar, Rebecca has a blog that is well worth a read. She completed the challenge of my last post with no problem at all, when rarely Libronix failed me. Read more

Someone has moved that bible verse….. Remember that game some of us played as kids in sunday school, well heres the challenge- find a verse (that I am SURE is in there somewhere!) that says something along these lines. ‘Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and especially those who believe.’ I so remember reading that verse, but can I find it!?! I can’t do a Paul and say ‘It is written somewhere’, not least because I know... Read more

One of the many ironys of parallels between the UK and US has to do with our view of politics, religion and the state. We don’t have a well developed Christian Media presense, but most of them, like most pastors would tend to take a rather detached view when it comes to politics. Although it would not be said, it is almost as though we believe that the church should be separate from politics on this side of the pond.... Read more

I really think we are blessed this side of the Atlantic. Christmas doesnt seem long ago and I am already on holiday from work for a week. It seems like every holiday the kids have from school I can manage to get at least some time off. It sure beats the NHS from that point of view. Of course the difference is this time I will pay for it with literally hundreds of emails to deal with when I get... Read more

Powerpoint files are available for David the servant king, The strength of the King, The character of the King and David and Bathsheba- The Sin of the King. Audio is also available for The Strength of the King and David and Bathsheba Read more

I have decided not to express too many opinions on the US elections- believe it or not I was approached by an over eager online campaigner to endorse George W Bush. Clearly I have been identified as a Republican! I declined to comment either way due to an old fashioned belief that I shouldnt in any way interfere in another democratic nation’s politics. This doesnt stop me linking to an American’s commentary by Jeff Jarvis who tries to explain the... Read more

Jason Hannagan has an interesting first post entitled “The Art of Raising Your Hand” it continues “There are those few who always seem to have an inkling to raise their hand in class and express their opinion. I happen to be one of those few. However, there is a fine line between being obnoxious and constructively contributing to the class discussion, but how do you tell?” This is an interesting way to start a blog in my view. No fanfare,... Read more

I am one of the first entries in a new Political Blog Directory Why not pop by and submit your own blog- it has categories for different political persuasions including ‘Religion’ which I thought mildly amusing. Read more