I guess there is a fair chance that if you are reading this, then like me, you are over fifty years old. How old? Over half a century! Hard to believe isn’t it? I can remember, as though it was only yesterday, thinking “Well – I’ll soon be twenty”, then it was “I’ll soon be […]
Oscar Pistorius was another in that long line of celebrity/role models to have fallen from grace recently. The revelation of the shock news that he may have murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp left fans of the ‘Blade Runner’ devastated. Tabloids daily rummage through the private lives of our heroes in ‘the public interest’, gathering salacious tit bits to parade […]
Struggling with your faith and its outworking? Two people recently have shown me the contemporary truth of transforming grace in their lives (Romans 12:1-2). The second I know, the first I don’t. Faith Under Fire. Andrew White has been the vicar of St George’s in Baghdad since 2005. Remarkably by the age 10 he knew […]
Many older people have to survive all week without a single visitor, let alone a handshake or a hug from someone. Yet some cutting-edge social projects are bucking the trend by deliberately sticking older people in the same room as the parents and toddlers. The older people in these studies report greater levels of happiness, […]
When I first heard about this book I was in the middle of thinking about suffering myself. I was writing an essay on evil and was consumed with the topic. So it was with great interest that I watched from a distance the last few months of the book’s production. Of course, it’s easy to […]
What would your reaction be if Jesus turned up at your place of work, the local social club, at your retirement home or was seen wandering around the streets of our towns and cities? How would you respond if Jesus tapped you on the shoulder and said I need you as one of the team that […]
It may not be part of your mindset to think in the way the apostle’s did, they wrote great letters of guidance. When we come across passages like the words we find in 1 Peter 5v1-7 it is a reminder to us who have reached our senior years “Be shepherds of God’s flock.” For those […]
Read this: Daniel Chap 1. Rap this: Jerusalem is on its knees An’ power is with God’s enemies An’ people groan in poverty An’ Dan is in captivity. But ‘cause of his high pedigree He’s earmarked for celebrity; . Fed up on local grub an’ booze, Read up on local culture, views; If Dan makes […]
At the age of 94 Billy Graham has set out his vision of what he is looking to achieve. It is a challenge that we who are many years younger should be taking on. Those who are closer in age to Billy Graham should not opt out but look to what God is asking them […]
Good question – thanks for asking! First of all, I agree. They can’t all be right. They can all contain some element of truth – but they can’t all be definitive, because they don’t teach the same thing. Christianity says that Jesus is God in human form; Islam says he isn’t. They might both be […]
