1 John 3 – a challenging chapter
Ian B. Have you been reading 1 John with me the past few weeks? I hope so! And I hope you’ll stick with it through this somewhat confusing central chapter. If you…
1 John 2 – the perfection of the love of God
1 John 2 is much longer than 1 John 1 which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, and it contains a wide range of themes and ideas –…
The genitive love of God
Continuing our thinking about the love of God I was reading Romans 5.5 this week, which says that “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit…
Physical reality in 1 John 1
We recently began a new series on Sundays exploring the love of God. I encouraged our church to read the book of 1 John, which is a very short book…
Joseph was a righteous man
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness I’m getting to the end of my study of Joseph, which I’ve really enjoyed. There are valuable things we can all…
Love Your Neighbour
Last week I started from a verse in Galatians 4 reflecting on our relationship with God. On Sunday I made a link with what Paul wrote later in Galatians 5…
Where, Who, Why, What, When, How…?
Returning to preach at CCC after my sabbatical (study leave) I pulled my thoughts together around six questions, under the title “You’re Only Human”, borrowed from Kelly Kapic’s book. Where…
When you pray…
Do you pray? Have you thought about the way you pray, and how you address God when you pray? Have you listened to the ways other people pray? One Bible…
Why Study the Bible?
A couple of weeks ago the Sunday morning theme at church was ‘Why Study the Bible?’ As I’m currently on sabbatical from church to enable me to study the Bible,…
Let my people go…
Freedom… for what? “Let my people go” is the well-known refrain of the opening chapters of Exodus, which BiOY has reached early in February. In Exodus 3:16-18 God tells Moses…