Revelation 1:17-18 The other day I found myself staring at a gravestone inscribed with the words, ‘In loving memory. Taken from us on Friday 7th July 2045’. According to the calculations of the online Death Clock, I have just 11,077 days left. The headstone was mine. Sooner or later that day will indeed come. What hope is there?
Revelation 1:17-18 The other day I found myself staring at a gravestone inscribed with the words, ‘In loving memory. Taken from us on Friday 7th July 2045’. According to the calculations of the online Death Clock, I have just 11,077 days left. The headstone was mine. Sooner or later that day will indeed come. What hope is there?
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 To have our eyes opened more to the wonder of the cross, and our hearts captured more by the beauty of the cross, is one of our biggest needs. That we might live cross-centered lives which are made up of cross-centred days. This passage in Isaiah can help us do that.
Isaiah 40:6-11 “I shop for things I don’t need. I buy things that are too expensive which makes me feel better about myself temporarily. I shop more when I’m sad,…
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 celestial dictator”. Like him many people resent any idea of being under God’s authority. But is the alternative really the freedom people think it is?”
Isaiah 38-39 Ever felt disillusioned? Perhaps with someone you know personally; or with a public figure; or with humanity; or with life; or with yourself? It’s a common enough experience. What is the solution? And what’s it got to do with a king of Judah in the 8th century BC?
Isaiah 25-27 Some equate being Christian with ‘The haunting fear that someone somewhere is having a good time’. And as for heaven, that would be plain dull. The reality is that celebration is at the very heart of what it means to be Christian and God’s people are heading for the mother of all parties.
John 12:12-26 Woody Allen famously said: “death renders anyone’s accomplishments meaningless”. So is there any way we can spend our lives doing something which will really last?
John 11:38-57 Woody Allen once wrote: “Death is absolutely stupefying in its terror…It makes our lives look as irrelevant as waves breaking over the sea shore.” Even those of us who are convinced that there’s something better beyond death, still can find the thought of it very frightening. How can we approach our own deaths joyfully and confidently?
John 11:17-37 Is death just part of “the circle of life” (as the Lion King assures us)? Is it “nothing at all, [just] slipping away into the next room” (as one popular funeral poem puts it)? How are we to think about death? And especially, how are we to find comfort and hope when we experience the deaths of those close to us?
