From today (9th January), for five days, four of my books are available for free on Amazon Kindle. Why not grab yourself a copy, read it, then find someone else and discuss it? Please click on the images below.... And pass the message on...
Author: theword4life
Husband, father, grandad (and loving it), follower, and servant of King Jesus. Pastor and Bible teacher. Love reading (especially theology), enjoy music, love to travel....
What Makes the Christmas Story such Good News?
What makes the Christmas story/the birth of Jesus such good news, not just for the parents and the people of the day, but for all – even for us today? Especially for us today, some two thousand years later? To get to the answer we have to ask what is the back story? I don’t … Continue reading What Makes the Christmas Story such Good News?
Advent – HOPE
Isaiah 2:1-4 is one of the traditional Christmas Advent readings, yet it seems to be misplaced. It seems to be about something totally unrelated to the Christmas story. "The vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:2 In the last daysthe mountain of the Lord’s house will be establishedat the top of … Continue reading Advent – HOPE
Encountering God in Prayer
Prayer by its very nature involves encounter – The coming of Jesus, his life, death, resurrection and ascension opened up to us not only the possibility of being saved, and the hope of life eternal, but access to the very presence of God in the here and now of our messy everyday lives – that … Continue reading Encountering God in Prayer
The Good Shepherd
Richard Burgess Too often people get distorted or plain wrong ideas about God. Right from humanities earliest days when the serpent suggested to Adam and Eve that God was not as good as what he had revealed himself to be, the enemy has sought to distort and destroy the true knowledge of God. One of … Continue reading The Good Shepherd
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