Bible In One Year 2011

    Thursday, 22 September 2011 - 2 comments

    ‘ "I’m a failure." “I am no use to God; I can’t think why He bothers with me.” “He wouldn’t want to answer my prayers.” “I seem to come back to Him asking forgiveness for the same thing over and over...

    Wednesday, 21 September 2011 - 1 comments

    Sir Winston Churchill has been described as Britain’s greatest ever leader.  He lived a long, heroic life, and he rallied a nation with his inspiring rhetoric.  Legend has it that once, when he returned...

    Tuesday, 20 September 2011 - 2 comments

    G.K. Chesterton wrote, ‘The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people!’ 

    Conflict is inescapable.  Even for those of...

    Monday, 19 September 2011 - 8 comments

    He had no one to help him become a lawyer or a politician.  He was not interested in the army.  He had no desire to be a doctor.  Therefore, the only obvious career move in those days for a man of his...

    Sunday, 18 September 2011 - 3 comments

    ‘This seemingly insubstantial fact revolutionised my life’, wrote Adrian Plass, author of The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 ¾.  ‘I became a Christian when I was sixteen years old, but it wasn’t...

    Saturday, 17 September 2011 - 9 comments

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ethiopia (now Northern Sudan) was on his way home from Jerusalem.  He was travelling in the ancient equivalent of a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce.  In Jerusalem he had...

    Friday, 16 September 2011 - 1 comments

    ‘I've found a love greater than life itself’ sings Ben Cantelon in his song, ‘Love Came Down’.  To some this might sound like mere romantic sentiment.  In fact, it expresses a great theological truth....

    Thursday, 15 September 2011 - 3 comments

    President J.F. Kennedy once remarked in a speech that ‘when written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters.  One represents danger and the other represents opportunity’.  Every crisis...

    Wednesday, 14 September 2011 - 6 comments

    No one was more surprised than Paul was at the testimony he had to give.

    ‘I feel renewed inside, a renewed spirit and I’ve got a lot of hope for myself.  Many words can express, but thank God.  I...

    Tuesday, 13 September 2011 - 1 comments

    I brought in a boxing glove as a visual aid.  I dangled the glove and showed how ineffective it was without a hand in it.  Then I put my hand in the glove, made a fist and punched the air so that everyone...

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