There is an art to wrapping Christmas presents and I don’t have it! My wife does. What she can do with a sheet of paper, a ribbon and a...

In the nativity plays Joseph is often a bit of an ‘extra’ – it’s not quite clear what he’s for. Admittedly, he didn’t have a part...

It’s not even December and I can’t escape the constant chitter chatter about what to get for Christmas. My children are running around...

Silence and speech; emptiness and meaning. These may seem like opposites, but Psalm 19 suggests otherwise. In this psalm, one of the...

Contentment is a rare quality. Personally speaking, I struggle a lot with restlessness – a feeling that I’ve not yet settled down and...

The psalms are chronicles of the human heart. They express the movements of emotion that typify the human experience as the writers pour...

The concept of the ‘god complex’ was first described by British psychoanalyst Ernest Jones. He argued that some people had such an...

Human beings occupy an interesting place in the universal scale of size. We sit somewhere in the middle of the range of organisms we can...

Although I’ve never seen it, apparently there is an inscription on the Reformation Wall (a monument to reformers) in Geneva that reads:...

The second psalm contrasts with the first in that it expands the horizon way beyond the contrast between individuals that Psalm 1...

Permanence is undervalued in our culture. Move with the times, change with the seasons, go with the flow are the themes of this age. ...

This week’s blog post is later in the day than normal and will be fairly brief. It starts a new series in which I’m planning to look at...

This series has followed a journey through salvation history by considering references in the Bible to God’s writing. We have seen how...

The gospel has sometimes been truncated in an unhelpful way. It is sometimes told as if it ends with the forgiveness of our sins, the...

So far in this series we have seen God writing in creation, in providence, in revelation and in judgement. God’s standard of justice is...

Readers of the Bible might be forgiven for thinking that Israel was at the centre of history in the centuries before Christ, but in...

So far in this series I have written about God’s ‘writing’ in creation (biologically through DNA and morally through the conscience) and...

In our home group this week one of the younger members asked the question: “Does God decide everything that is going to happen to us?” ...

At the root of the mysteries of the human body lies an amazing chemical called DNA. It is the stuff genes are made of, its sequence...

Writing is a distinctively human skill. It has no equivalent in the behaviour of any animal species. It allows ideas to be recorded and...