the waiting country

Who knows you? How well do they do so? And what is it they know? For most of us there are many things we keep hidden and yet we cherish a de...

Pondering: if those who don't know or haven't heard the gospel could hear my words, read my comments, to or about fellow Christians,...

It would seem to be common sense: you need to have an engaged sign that you use to maintain some distance from others in life, the ability t...

James writes that each and every Christian ought to be "Quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (1:19) That cauti...

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...