Exiled Preacher

In one of the Bible's  Horrible Histories moments   Eglon the tubby tyrant is put to the sword by Ehud the left-handed judge. See Judges...

Christian Focus, 2019, 160pp Evangelists who tell people that if they become a Christian they are in for a trouble free life are just...

  Back in November we paused to remember the end of World War One. On the eve of that conflict UK foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey rema...

Well, that’s it. The balmy days of summer are well and truly over. You can pack away the deck chairs, buckets and spades for another y...

In Wiltshire we are blessed to live in a beautiful part of the country. Gentle hills, flat valley plains, patchwork quilt fields, stat...

Does a book, or a sermon always have to be instantly relevant to the needs of the reader/hearer? Listening to some people you would think th...

John Owen, 1616-1683, author of On the Mortification of Sin Colossians 3:5-7 Those who are still dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2...

Colossians 3:5-7 Paul concludes his vice list  of sins that must be mortified with “covetousness, which is idolatry”. This is a strange st...

Colossians 3:5-7 Sin is not a trivial matter. It is deadly serious, yet our society has little grasp of the utter seriousness of sin. The ...

   Colossians 3:5-7 When I was in school grammar was out, which might explain a lot. Beyond the basics of commas, full stops and spelling,...

From the Resurrection to His Return: Living  Faithfully in the Last Days , by Don Carson, Christian Focus, 2010, 48pp. How should Christia...

Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad , Paul David Tripp, Shepherd Press, 2009, 223 pages As you can see, the front cov...

The other Sunday one of the churches I serve had a Gift Day, so I preached on the theme of giving, taking 2 Corinthians 8:9 as my text. It m...

The Ordinary Hero: Living the cross and resurrection by Tim Chester, IVP, 2009, 221pp The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ lie at the...

Calvin has a reputation (perhaps not altogether undeserved) of being a little tetchy and austere. Let us redress the balance (after all it i...

In Homer's The Odyssey , the hero Odysseus is forced to choose between two monsters poised on opposite sides of the narrow Strait of Mes...

"My peace I give unto you" ( John 14:27) We live in anxious and troubled times. People are worried about global warming, terrori...

On Monday I wended my way to Honiton, Devon for the Westcountry Reformed Minister's Fraternal. I drove to Gillingham, Dorset and met up ...

The God Who Draws Near: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality by Michael A. G. Haykin , Evangelical Press, 2007, 120pp Spirituality is on...