Greetings, For a while now we have been giving some attention to developing our understanding of the deeper aspects of the gospel. When the gospel is mentioned, the most common starting point for understanding it is probably the point where Christ … [Read more...]

Trip to Rwanda and Madagascar – March 2018 On March 8th my wife and I made our way to Heathrow airport in London for the short hop over to Amsterdam. As is our custom, we stayed in the Ibis Hotel that night because it is quite inexpensive and has … [Read more...]

Greetings, Jesus Christ thanked His Father for revealing the things of God to “babes” – meaning those whom the Father had drawn to Christ. “Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him” (Matthew … [Read more...]

Greetings, There is nothing more sure in God’s Church than change. In the second and third chapters of Revelation, Christ stresses that it is the overcomers, the changers, who will have their names written in the Book of Life and who will sit with … [Read more...]

God wants us all to grow spiritually – both as a group and individually. How we grow individually depends on how much we as children of God invest in the process. In other words, to achieve the level of spiritual maturity that God desires for us, it … [Read more...]

Greetings, Our world is a complex set of issues involving cause and effect. Unravelling and understanding these is sometimes difficult because the effect dominates. For example, the subject of climate change has become an emotive debate. The effects … [Read more...]

Mark Twain once said, “Lord save us all from … a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” How true it is. Life loses its fragrance without hope and that can lead to depression. Faithful people down through time have struggled … [Read more...]

The Kingdom of God – An important Element of the Gospel The world has been successively ruled by kingdoms. From a biblical perspective we see this clearly outlined by Daniel as he explains to the Babylonian king the contents of the king’s dream. … [Read more...]

Greetings, Gridlock in the physical realm, such as we see within politics today, more often than not is deadlock. Nothing will change until a compromise is struck. And compromise, by its nature, inevitably leads to the further denigration of … [Read more...]

The life of King David is recorded in some detail in scripture. His strengths and weaknesses are laid bare for us to see. The overall sense that we gain from his life is that he was a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22). This tells us a great deal … [Read more...]