There are many kinds of people who attend church. There is the group of people who do so on special occasions only such as Christmas or Easter. The folks generally attend out of tradition or some expectation that they must do their duty once or twice a year. Such people I would call misguided because the ...
Having been away for five or six weeks, I have had time to reflect on where to go next with this blog. As always, I write from what is going in in my life and heart at the time, and right now I am grappling with church issues. So it seems appropriate that I now ...
Hi everyone So sorry for the break in communication, but we decided to take a proper holiday (first one in many years) and so have been gone for the past five weeks. Our internet was really unstable so we could not even keep the posts coming from abroad. Great to be back and looking forward ...
Extract from chapter 12 of Christianity in Simple English Heaven is a real place. Jesus spoke of heaven when He spoke about going to prepare a place for us. He said that in His Father’s house there are many mansions and if it were not so, He would have said so. Many people have had ...
Extract from chapter 11 of my book God always chooses to do His work through people. God is all powerful and if He wants to do something, He can! God chose to honour His word. He cannot lie and He does not go back on His promises. God gave us a free will and so ...
Extract from chapter 10 Understanding the Trinity takes a little concentration, because it is a term that is completely foreign to us. The fact that three individual persons could at the same time be one person is unusual to say the least. But, who said that God was usual? So since this book is about ...
Fasting is tough, and many people wonder whether we are supposed to fast or not as Christians. We see the Muslims fasting over Ramadan, but why should Christians fast? What is the point and how often are we supposed to fast, if at all? Many Christians never fast but that does not make it right. ...
Justification When you go to church and listen to the preacher, you are likely to hear him or her use terminology that few people really understand. One of those terms is justification. Justification is where God accepts us as sinners and then forgives us and declares us to be “just” (in good standing) with God, ...
Extract from chapter 8 of my book “Christianity in Simple English” I hope you are finding this useful When I was in my mid-twenties, newly married and in a new church, I saw something that made my blood boil. The church I attended was the largest church in the country and had grown from a few ...
Extract from chapter 7 of my book “Christianity in Simple English” I hear so many people these days who say “I love God, but I hate the church.” Personally I find it ridiculous, but it does happen … a lot! Many Christians I know personally do not even go to church. When I ask them ...