The other day my pride took a bit of a hit. On my bible reading app I’d managed to get the grand total of 949 on my streak score. For those who don’t know what that is its a measure of how many days you’ve picked up and signed into your app. 949 isn’t a […]
I’ve been thinking lately about what it means to rejoice in salvation. It seems to me that easy to let my familiarity with the gospel message dull me to the wonder of what God has done through his son Jesus. It is of course a miracle that God would know me from before time itself […]
While there has rightly been much emphasis in recent years on the community of God’s people being the focus of the Bible rather simply the individual there is always a danger that we make our spiritual life merely a function of being with other people. Simply put this means that we only ever pray or […]
A little while ago I was working through Thomas A Kempis’ book The Imitation of Christ. I’m not endorsing the whole book but there was a couple of chapters that I thought were really good. Listen to this from chapter 5. TRUTH, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures; and every […]
“I’ve decided to have a week off church because you don’t need to go to church to be a Christian so there is no obligation for me to go” Ever heard anything like that? There are other variations on it: “I don’t need to read my Bible every day because there is no command that […]
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