Key Verse: Seek God First
This is a wonderful verse to memorise, which we so often forget when we get worried about all kinds of things. It is in the middle of a whole passage on worry, and when...
Category: holiness
Do We Live Up To Our Name?
Most Christians know that in the Bible we are called saints. What I didn’t know though, was that the word saint is the same Greek word as is used for ‘holy’ – it is...
Life Is Short – Let’s Use It the Best We Can
I was reading in the Psalms the other day and was reminded of the shortness of life: “LORD, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I...
Why It’s OK for Christians to Make an Effort
For a few years now I have been increasingly bothered by something I have seen in Christianity – an underlying belief that it’s bad to work at, strive, and make an effort to grow,...
Why be Holy?
I loved reading this the other day in Your God is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan: ‘The goal of the disciplined life is love: to more and more live in and live out the...
The Discipline of Grace
I’ve been struck recently by how it seems that many Christians go to one side or the other when it comes to growing and becoming more like Christ, after salvation. Some believe we just...
How Should the Possibility of a Rapture Today Affect Us?
Many people probably know that there has been a prediction that the rapture would happen TODAY! You can read about it here, in an interview with Harold Camping by CNN. He says he has no doubt...
