John 8v12 Why are we afraid of the dark? Why is darkness associated with evil? Black magic. The dark side which seduced Darth Vader. Horror films set in the dark.…
John 8v12 Why are we afraid of the dark? Why is darkness associated with evil? Black magic. The dark side which seduced Darth Vader. Horror films set in the dark.…
Romans 6v20-23 The late Christopher Hitchens said he didn’t want there to be a God, because he didn’t want to be “under the permanent control and supervision of an unalterable…
Luke 18v9-14 “I am a creature of the day, passing through life as an arrow through the air…till a few moments hence I am seen no more! I drop into…
Isaiah 42:1-12There are times when we may feel God has forgotten us, or we feel failures because of sin, or we feel despair looking at the state of the world. What does God say to us at such times? “Behold my servant”.
Are you feeling discouraged at the moment? Perhaps weighed down by past failures, or struggling with present difficulties, or worried about future uncertainties. Imagine getting home and finding on your answer-machine or voicemail a personal message of encouragement from God himself to you. That is what we have in this passage!
Most modern people don’t quite get the Bible’s obsession with idolatry. We think of idolatry as an ancient problem for backward people who bowed down to statues, not a relevant one for sophisticated folks like us. But we aren’t beyond idolatry. We simply dress it up in different clothes.
If there were a customer service department in heaven, the phones would often be ringing, and many of the calls would be from God’s people. “Why do you seem so distant? Why has this happened to me? Why have you forgotten me?” This passage is the heavenly response to such complaints.
One discussion forum post declared, “My week sucked, my day sucked, and I’m sick of hearing depressing stuff on the news. So let’s have a thread of happy news”. What good news would you have posted in response? What comfort does the Bible give?
Isaiah 2:6-4:6 Over the past months there’s been lots of discussion about whether Brazil would be ready for the big day. With 100 days to go before the start of the…
Isaiah 2:1-5 On God’s wall calendar there are two big blocks of time – the last days and the last day. Once we grasp God’s timetable, it’s a game-changer –…