the waiting country

Between us and the Kingdom of God as a fully realised fact lies death. It cannot but be so. We saw before that the idea of a perfect society...

(These comments by Matt Crawford in The World Beyond Your Head on the absence of silence and the gutting of attention have serious pastoral...

Commenting on Joseph's & his brothers' experiences, Tim Keller writes: We must never assume that we know enough to mistrust God...

It's a striking warning: "if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be u...

Psalm 127:2 says that God gives sleep to those he loves. This is surely the antidote to the endless productivity hacking so many of us find ...

The people you serve are a huge disappointment, forever grumbling about one thing or another, looking at you with distrust and treating you ...

…his story also leaves the reader with the feeling that we shall not see Oden’s like again. To recover tradition as he did, one must not si...

Some arts reliably attain their object - for example, the art of building. If the building falls down, one can say in retrospect that the b...

"…for me the most important thing about handwriting has a lot to do with focus. I often feel like my thoughts act sort of like they are...

In worship God gathers his people to himself as centre: ‘The Lord reigns’ (Ps. 93:1). Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives ...

The following paragraphs from Bruce Milne’s book, The Message of John , relate to the great prayer of Jesus in chapter 17 of John’s Gospel a...

You’ve told people the great good news about Jesus. How he died and rose again and in his death is the answer to their sin and estrangement ...

It seems so very obvious: Jesus wants his people to be sanctified (ie. set apart, holy). In fact, he prays for just that in his great prayer...

Paul is concerned not with the virtue or happiness of the individual, but with the corporate identity of his communities as the basis for mo...

Psalm 44 expresses deep agony. The nation is in turmoil and, seemingly, a sitting duck for its enemies. They not only feel weak, they  are  ...

Ray Ortlund chooses a great quote from Martin Luther as one of his favourites: “May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in...

In handling a difficult issue concerning personal relationships and misunderstanding, Jack Miller wrote the following to a friend (emphasis...

There was something fundamentally anomalous about their gazing up into the sky when they had been commissioned to go to the end of the eart...

Does Cheap Online Video Trump Text? This makes for interesting reading, especially for those who see themselves as ‘people of the Book’ (who...

Do you get your joy from the right things? Jesus’ disciples rejoiced that he was absent from them . Look at Luke 24:52 - after he was taken...