Only human?
"The Word became flesh..." John 1.14 Perhaps because it is 'World Humanitarian Day' I have spent much of it in humanitarian work - of a...
The new oil
"The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it..." Psalm 24.1 A university friend put something in an email which alarmed me. It was his...
Sacrifice or legacy?
“All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. The grass withers, the flowers fall..." Isaiah 40. 6-7 I'm...
Time out
"The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights." Habakkuk 3.19 How...
Has highland evangelicalism had its day?
"After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,...
Back or forward?
"Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one." Hebrews 11.16 Watching last night's 'Blood of the Clans' I was struck...
Whose agenda?
“Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” Mark 1.38 Jesus' public ministry...
The secret of history
"Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Then I saw a Lamb who...
Dislocation of expectation
"... you do not even know what will happen tomorrow..." James 4. 14 That things often don't go according to plan shouldn't surprise us....
Responsible for everything?
"... and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side." Luke 10.31 Do you think he felt a pang of guilt? The man in Jesus' story...