One Year Bible 2010

I Did It God's Way

I Did It God's Way

Proverbs 4:10-19 | Matthew 26:31-46 | Exodus 4:1-6:12
‘My Way’ is the most remade song in history. It was popularised by Frank Sinatra (one of the most notable entertainers of the twentieth century – a ballroom singer and actor) on his…
Living in a Hostile World

Living in a Hostile World

Psalm 19:1-6 | Matthew 26:1-30 | Exodus 1:1-3:22
If you ask a Christian who was the greatest person who has ever lived, they would reply without any hesitation, ‘Jesus Christ’. If you asked a Jew in the first century who was the greatest…
Faithfulness

Faithfulness

Psalm 18:43-50 | Matthew 25:14-46 | Job 40:3-42:17
When Frank Pakenham (7th Earl of Longford, 1905–2001) died in August 2001, former prisoners joined hundreds of mourners to say farewell to the Labour peer who spent his life faithfully fighting…
What We Know and What We Don't Know

What We Know and What We Don't Know

Psalm 18:37-42 | Matthew 24:32-25:13 | Job 38:1-40:2
I used to be an agnostic in the sense that I was ‘a person who holds the view that nothing can be known of the existence of God or of anything beyond material phenomena’ (The New Shorter…
Words

Words

Proverbs 4:1-9 | Matthew 24:1-31 | Job 35:1-37:24
There is an urban legend that men speak 10,000 words a day and women 25,000. When tested by scientific research, this was shown to be simply not true. Women and men both speak about 16,000 words a day…
The Life of a Leader

The Life of a Leader

Psalm 18:25-36 | Matthew 23:1-39 | Job 33:1-34:37
I remember attending a conference in Docklands Arena several years ago. At the end of one of the talks, the speaker invited all leaders to come forward so that he could pray for them at the front. Thousands…
Moments of Victory

Moments of Victory

Psalm 18:16-24 | Matthew 22:15-46 | Job 30:1-32:22
There is an amazing clip of a wonderful moment of victory. Seven days after the terrible earthquake in Haiti, an eight year old boy was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed two storey building in Port…