Tag: Bible

Standing room only at the church that ‘just does the Bible’

WE ARE used to hearing messaging from the woke, secular and now Islamic fundamentalist movements that Christianity is in decline, Islam is on the rise and that both these trends are not reversible.  In a world of harsh rhetoric and relentless negative messages, it is easy to become despondent and pick up this prevailing narrative […]

The Bible: Read, learn and digest

THE Prayer Book Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent is a powerful spur to the Christian discipline of personal Bible reading.  The Collect draws on the Apostle Paul’s statement in Romans chapter 15 verse 4, which begins the Epistle reading for today: ‘Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through […]