If Jesus had not been born we wouldn’t have the Spirit and without the Spirit we’d have no idea that God is our Father (see part 1) and no clue what our Father is up to (part 2). “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has [...]
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If Jesus had not been born there would be no promised Spirit, and without the Spirit we would never discover that God is actually our Father (see part 1). And not knowing God as our Father, we would never know what it’s like to be his child.
And not being a child [...]
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What if Jesus wasn’t the Son of God after all, and he really was just a Jewish rabbi and nothing more than that? Or what if he’s just another mythical figure like Santa Claus and he never was born at all, and the entire Jesus story is a hoax? Would it make any [...]
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Another political fiasco in the news and another torrent of letters to our local newspaper. The opinions expressed were damning too, for and against, and the letters ran to two pages. How angry people get when it comes to politics.
Politicians infuriate and exasperate me, too. I can’t stand their waffling on [...]
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I don’t know how cats do it. They are the most efficient killing machines on the planet for an animal their size. They are cunning, predatory and equipped to kill, with huge swivel ears, eyes that can see in the dark, retractable claws they can sharpen to a needle point, fangs that can [...]
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A 4-part series on TV has been tracing the almost insurmountable difficulties of a choirmaster putting a choir together out of school boys who think singing is for girls. Their school hasn’t had any singing for 30 years, and only 2 boys out of 1200 are in choirs already. The choirmaster is starting [...]
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Dogs can be a delight to live with or a horror. They have a lot of nasty habits. They bark incessantly, jump up on visitors, grab food out of a child’s hand, barge out the front door and race off, pull on the leash, dig holes in the garden, refuse to come on [...]
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I wonder how many kids grow up in homes (or grew up in schools) where they’re yelled at and hit for making mistakes. I wonder how it affects them in later life, too.
I suppose I know, though. Much of my childhood was spent in a British Boarding school and I have [...]
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I think I got my first real whiff of what being “born again” is like when our 6 year old granddaughter came to stay with us for a week. She was ecstatically happy to be with us, and for the life of me I couldn’t work out why. I’m a doddery old codger [...]
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Christmas is amazing. For some incredible reason it just keeps going. Even non-Christians don’t mind keeping an ancient Christian festival.
For most people, Christmas has nothing to do with Christ or his birth, of course, it’s about the mythical Santa Claus bringing gifts to children on Christmas Eve. But isn’t that the [...]
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