I was sat in my room at the end of my first year at university. And my life was falling apart.I had had to stay on beyond the end of term to do a couple of weeks training on workshop equipment. So most of my friends had gone home. I was DJ in the university discos (rare for a first year!) and radio station. But they had all fallen silent – so I no longer had an audience.I wasn’t even…
“For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth … and in him all things hold together”(Colossians 1:16-17)We say God is Sovereign. Most Christians will affirm that. But what does that mean?Obviously a bit of a big subject, so let’s just look at the coronavirus pandemic. Where did it come from? And where is God in this?Well there are a limited set of possibilities. It could be a random event – just one of those things. So…
Can we Trust the Bible? To go alongside my previous blog about Foundations, it’s important we know that the Bible is the Word of God.A recent post in FaceBook said this: “It is more crucial than ever that believers understand what the Bible is and what they can trust it wholeheartedly”.Absolutely.It’s probably the most important thing for us to know, otherwise we’re ‘tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine’. No absolutes, no certainty. The Bible makes some strong…
The house did not fall because it had been founded on rock Matthew 7:25 Thought I might start this blog as a means of capturing my thoughts as we all go through an unprecedented situation. This is a bit new to me as I’m not used to writing in this style – so if anyone’s reading this please bear with me! I was speaking with someone the other day who was having some doubts about who Jesus was. I get that!…