Read this: ‘For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood………God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in […]
There’s something called ‘an appeal to authority’. It involves glibly quoting someone more famous or more intelligent than yourself as though that proves the point you’re trying to make. Both Christians and Atheists do it, and it’s annoying. I call it the Stephen Fry syndrome (Melchett from Blackadder for our American readers): here’s a wonderfully […]
Do you find it easier or harder to take a stand as you become older? Should we become more accommodating, more understanding or more bold in our faith? I was a member of an industry-networking group. The demographic of the group was 50-plus, male and all were professional and some very highly respected in their […]
Date: Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue: St Thomas Church, Chatsworth Road, Brampton, Chesterfield, S40 3AW Cost: £5 Includes lunch and refreshments Contact: Steve Martin steve.martin@cvm.org.uk We are very aware of the unique challenges, opportunities and skills that exist with older men across the CVM Network. We are looking to expand, focus and build this work, to better […]
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope The week before I got married, my Dad and I had a stand-up fight. A proper all-guns-blazing fight that saw him throw me across a table, cutting my back open. It started because I told him to shut up. I told him to shut up because […]
One of the biggest booms in the holiday vehicle industry in the UK has been in the recovery of old VW camper Vans. These vans used to be languishing in old barns as chicken coops, or sat in back yards as old sheds, but now have been resurrected and are becoming regularly seen on […]
Richard Dawkins famously said that faith is belief without evidence. That’s not how the Oxford English Dictionary would describe faith, but the phrase has stuck and so the idea that there is no evidence for God has memed its way through our culture. We’ve talked before about the difference between evidence and proof. Evidence is […]
I want to introduce you to a useful book. It’s written by a good friend of mine. Jon Morrison is Canadian, slightly cheeky, sharp-minded and very easy to get on with because he’s mastered the art of not taking himself very seriously. Jon and I studied together for a period and he’s since returned to […]
When I took up skiing the instructors mantra was “you’ll go where you’re looking”. I already knew this from my mountain biking days – it was a lesson learnt at a much earlier age when learning seemed somewhat easier. Flying down a mountain trail it doesn’t pay to concentrate on the obstacles in your […]
Read this: “My guilt overwhelms me – it is a burden too heavy to bear.” Psalm 38 v 4 Recite this out loud: We can sometimes feel a sense of guilt. Is it a thing in-built, A feeling of real guilt Or just a guilty feeling? Is the guilt the thing Or is the thing […]
