We seem to live in an age which lusts after the miraculous and obsesses about the supernatural. In this way we can very easily ‘miss the...

‘No, of course not’ we reply! At least not until someone offends us....In truth we can all be pretty easy to rub the wrong way with...

Calling all eunuchs (and the rest of you!), Acts chapter 8 tells the amazing story of how Christianity first arrived in Africa. A...

Philip goes to Samaria and preaches the Jesus story with the happy result that virtually the whole city believes. The picture that we are...

In Galatians 4 the Apostle Paul makes reference to two women who produced children for Abraham. One was his legitimate wife, Sarah, the...

Today I want us to take another look at Stephen, the church’s first martyr. Last time we looked at how Stephen could have such assurance...

It is an irony of our age that the people who tell the truth are the ones who tend to get hammered into the ground. Think Maurice McCabe....

It may be a little early to think of St Stephen’s Day but we have been recently looking at this Martyr on Sundays. His speech in the book...

In the ancient world of Rome sons were usually schooled and trained by a household slave. For the son this probably wasn’t an exciting...

For the Jews the Temple in Jerusalem was a massive deal being at the very heart of their religion. Indeed, for the Old Testament...

Which is the bigger waste of time? A) Learning Esperanto B) Waiting for the British government to get organised for Brexit C) Scuba...

On Thursday evenings we have been reading through the book of Galatians which has been quite a roller coaster ride. The background is...

One of the reasons that I love reading the Bible is because it is such a brutally honest book. Despite what people think (usually those...

On the authority of God’s Word we can categorically say that Father Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, went to Heaven. No...

Someone once stated that the only certainties of life are death and taxes. And yet death is a subject that we really don’t feel...

On Thursday evening, instead of our usual Bible study, we heard a great presentation by a young visiting speaker. Sarah shared with us...

If you had one opportunity to speak to a dying man what would you say? Talk about the weather? Inquire how healthy the person’s bank...

With such a title this is not exactly the ideal way of starting a blog post....If that is how you feel then you will readily appreciate...

Acts 4.32-5.16 gives us a great picture of a great church in action! Many of us today tend to slip into the awful tendency of thinking of...

Question- when are you beyond the long arm of the law? Answer- when it has already flexed it’s muscles and put you to death. This, oddly...