In my last essay, ‘In everything give thanks’ I wrote about the transforming power of thankfulness in ourselves and in our lives. Today I will look at some other attitudes which are commended by God in certain situations described in the Bible. These concern our attitudes to current events. There is in my country atContinue reading “Other memorable attitudes”
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In everything give thanks
Many people I expect may remember from their childhood, having said something unappreciative about a food item or meal, being told: ‘don’t you know there are thousands of starving people in the world?’ or something like that. I can say for myself, those sort of reminders never made me feel more grateful for the food,Continue reading “In everything give thanks”
Sunday News 12 October 2025
Love, love, love This week someone put in our letterbox something you might call a Christian ‘tract’. On the front is says, ‘Father’s Love Letter – An intimate message from God to you’. Being a Christian myself, I am always interested to receive tracts or other communications sent to me impersonally. They provide me withContinue reading “Sunday News 12 October 2025”
Sunday News 5 October 2025
What manner of spirit ‘And he sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said,Continue reading “Sunday News 5 October 2025”
Sunday News 28 September 2025
Life on the claims This week my wife and I visited her mother who is recuperating in a local rest home after being discharged from a short stay in hospital. My father in law, now in his nineties, drove from their house to meet us for lunch in the local shopping mall. From there weContinue reading “Sunday News 28 September 2025”
Sunday News 21 September 2025
One. ‘Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And theContinue reading “Sunday News 21 September 2025”
Sunday News 14 September 2025
Not of this world. Let’s get this straight. Jesus said: ‘My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.’ (John 18:36) The kingdom of our Lord Jesus ChristContinue reading “Sunday News 14 September 2025”
Sunday News 7 September 2025
Ruling the world In last week’s article I hypothesized that Job, by his diligent pursuit of righteous living before God, was a thorn in the side of Satan whose activities were constrained in some way because of Job’s example. My belief is that Job made a difference to the world of his day far beyondContinue reading “Sunday News 7 September 2025”
Sunday News 31 August 2025
Making a difference ‘Making a difference’ is a phrase you may hear in everyday speech, perhaps in relation to some person’s good works or contribution to charity. But for those like me who are focused on a Biblical interpretation of the world (not, I hope, to the exclusion of charity) whether or not we canContinue reading “Sunday News 31 August 2025”
Sunday News 24 August 2025
Tokens In common usage, the term ‘token value’ describes something given to satisfy a requirement – to ‘tick a box’ you could say – without making any real, useful contribution. To make it look like something is being done or given, when actually nothing of real value is. ‘Token value’ means ‘little or no realContinue reading “Sunday News 24 August 2025”
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