How do you get men in retreat? Ask them to join the quilt group; teach children’s Sunday School; or bake a quiche maybe? Seriously, I was thinking more of a spiritual retreat. Every year in Spring, our Dutch church is a guest of a church in Surry at their men’s retreat. It’s a wonderful time […]
I once asked a non-Christian friend of mine what it would take for him to believe in God. He replied that he would need to see undeniable evidence of his existence through an amazing miracle. I’ve often heard this question asked, and when pressed as to what this miracle might be, people say things like […]
I recently learned of something which I thought worth passing on as a helpful guidance to us men in the sensitive area of sex, lust and sexual relationships. Our society seems to be obsessed with sexuality and lust as we are continuously bombarded with sexual imagery in advertising, TV and films and even our popular […]
Ethos – part of Youth for Christ have released a new video looking at the question of morality. This – part III – was written by Andy of the Demolition Squad. Catch Up Missed part I and II? Have a look here: Part I – Can We Prove The Existence of God? Part II – We Shouldn’t Care
Earlier this week I went to bed to find our cat “Meta” curled up halfway down the duvet, clearly not wishing to be disturbed, after all he was there first. I successfully got into bed and gradually claimed the quilt back. Meta did not complain and leave as usual but insisted on snuggling up to […]
Here we are then, with another exciting instalment of supposed Bible inaccuracies. This week we’re looking at some of the questions posed in the book of Mark. Woohoo! Mark 6:5 – Why couldn’t Jesus do mighty works? Problem: If Jesus is God, ‘with all authority in heaven and earth’, why is it that he ‘could […]
The fastest growing churches are the ones without ‘walls’, the New Testament church, the persecuted underground church in China, the Pentecostal church in South America and parts of Africa. They have no buildings, no institutions, no professional leadership, but they have the body of Christ involved in all spheres of life. In Africa I have […]
“If I wasn’t a follower of Jesus and I was looking in on the Twitter feeds of Christians, I would think several different things about who Jesus really is by the way people talk about him.” When the parents of my daughter’s friends discovered the other day we were Christians, they asked if we were […]
Is God dead? Not in academia. As someone who teaches philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, Vince Vitale is well placed to know what the top scholarship says about God. Vince shows how in the fields of philosophy and sociology, God is very much alive. If you think intellectual objections undermine belief in God, […]
Dementia is typically an illness of old age; the longer you live, the greater your chances of developing dementia. In the UK, between the ages of 40 and 64, only one person in every fourteen hundred people has dementia. In those over the age of eighty it is one person in six. Women with dementia […]
