In Honour of a Friend

In Honour of a Friend.   “When David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep” (Acts 13:36)   I want to dedicate today’s blog to Tim Creamer. It is written to honour the memory of a good friend who lost his battle with Covid-19 yesterday.   There can be no higher …

Trust

Trust.   My one word for 2019 was TRUST. If you want to know what the ‘one word’ concept is, check out my last post, One Word. It’s the one word you want to focus on for a year to bring growth and clarity in your life.   I chose trust as my one word …

Commands and Consequences

Commands and Consequences. With chapter 26 we come virtually to the end of Leviticus proper. It caps off the whole book and verse 46 summarises everything from the first 25 chapters. This is a chapter of two halves, as complementary as two sides of a coin but at the same time a study of contrasts. …

Plans and Purpose

Plans and Purpose. "Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." (Proverbs 19:21) I'm a planner. I like to plan. The world is made up in roughly equal measures of those who can relate to those statements and those who will recoil in horror from them. The …

Refined Like Gold (Job 23)

Refined like Gold (Job 23). It turns out that people are like plants. Apparently like precious metals too. In fact, it seems that horticulture and metallurgy can inform some pretty deep theology. There are two metaphors in the Bible that reveal profound things about the human nature, and one of them is in Job 23. …

Having a Point but Missing the Point (Job 11)

Having a Point but Missing the Point (Job 11) Job's friends have a lot to say. For people who spent the first few days in silent solidarity with their hurting friend, they go on to be quite voluble. So much so, in fact, that they get more than a little repetitive and it's easy to …

Solidarity (Job 2)

Solidarity (Job 2) We all like to have a ready word for every situation, don’t we? The Bible says as much:   “A person finds joy in giving an apt reply – and how good is a timely word!” (Proverbs 15:23)   It can make us look witty and sophisticated, make others think well of …

The Generosity of God’s Promises (Genesis 12)

God is generous. Exceedingly, undeservedly so. From out of the blue, God says to Abram in Genesis 12:2-3:   “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you …