When we respond to Christ’s direction to “go into your room and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place,” what visualization of God forms in your mind? When we talk to another person face to face, we see the person … [Read more...]

There is one subject where practically everyone in the world is in agreement. That is the idea that “everybody else has it better than I do!”. Who doesn’t know someone for whom things are not going “better” than for me? Despite the fact that, in … [Read more...]

There are numerous words that we use in our daily vocabulary that have changed meaning over the years. For example, not very long ago the word “gay” had a totally different connotation than it does today. Have we allowed ourselves to appropriate a … [Read more...]

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, told the country in her New Year message that if her Brexit deal was passed by Parliament, the country could move forward together and begin a new chapter. The government could then work on … [Read more...]

The calendar year of 2019 is looking more and more like it will be a year of upheaval. Nothing certain can be predicted, but there are indications that the world order as we have known it is changing. An important focus is what is happening in the … [Read more...]

In the word of God there are many stories of heroes. We can read of Abraham and Jacob, of David and of Paul and others. It can be very revealing and encouraging for us to see them as they really were, what they did, how they reacted and also how … [Read more...]

A common practice amongst government departments is that of lobbying. Lobbyists put pressure on individuals in government to persuade them to do something. We are also familiar with terms like group pressure, peer pressure and social pressure. The … [Read more...]

Greetings, It is difficult to escape the feeling that our world is becoming more divided by the day. For example, we are hearing more about political identity. While it has been quite customary to identify with some political party in terms of … [Read more...]

It would be no overstatement to say that one of this modern world’s most pervasive worldviews is that of humanism. The American Humanist Association defines humanism as “a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our … [Read more...]