the waiting country

For several years I'd used plans to read through the whole Bible, generally within a certain time-frame (a year, two years...). They...

Isaiah 30:15 opens with some of the most gorgeous words in the Bible: the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says to his people that ...

...It is when we come face to face with God and meditate upon Him that we are finally delivered from that low level of rational thinking and...

Many of the psalms have very specific fulfilment in the life and experiences of our Lord Jesus. Psalm 16, for example, is regularly used in ...

How much does it matter that you and I are "encouraged in heart and united in love" ? Are they the icing on the cake for the Chris...

"I find praying together with others so much easier and more satisfying than praying on my own. But I heard someone say that what we ar...

The exhortation to rejoice and the invitation to not be anxious for anything but to bring all to God in prayer are a very well-known and muc...

 If it is true that, for pastors and elders, character matters more than gifts (as most seem agreed is the case), then that will also hold t...

The opening words in Psalm 62 call to us, across the centuries, and perhaps resonate with us as being 'for such a time as this': ...

Most pastors probably feel that they're working hard right now on behalf of their churches - tackling things we've maybe never had t...

For every Christian, listening to the Lord, paying attention to his Word, is not a matter of debate; it's an almost instinctive and deli...

Jeremiah 17:9 speaks of "A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning..." - the Lord's seat of honour, established in righte...

Paul's evangelism was uncompromisingly effective but not calculatingly offensive. Paul could speak the truth with grace and respect. He ...

The account of Elijah by the brook in 1 Kings 17:2-6 is deeply moving. In a time of drought and distress, with the nation under the severest...

The generosity of God in the gospel of his Son is astonishingly deep. It moves our hearts to humbled worship and Spirit-given joy. Its procl...

A theologian's colleague had a sign on his door: "Jesus knows me, this I love" . It's a striking reversal of a much-loved ...

Trinity is a conceptual attempt to provide coherence to God as God is revealed variously as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our Scriptures: ...

The apostle Paul was put on trial as a Christian for heralding the good news that Jesus is Lord and not Caesar (2 Tim. 4:9-18). It was, quit...

Sometimes it makes sense to turn back. A mountain climb when the weather closes in, or driving somewhere when thick, freezing fog descends. ...