I love the story that Billy Graham recounted not long before he died. He related the anecdote about Albert Einstein travelling on a train and being unable to locate his train ticket when asked by a ticket inspector. The inspector reassured Albert that he knew who he was and a ticket wasn’t necessary. The inspector moved on but noticed that Albert was continuing to search frantically for the lost ticket so the inspector returned to him to tell him that presenting the ticket di

How often have you gone to a funeral and heard the officiator say that that person is in hell? Never, I bet! It has always amazed me that when I have gone to the funeral of a professed atheist or anti-Christian, it is always said that they are in a better place or up there in the sky enjoying themselves or looking down on us smiling. Heaven is Jesus’ house and what makes people think that Jesus will let them into His house when they haven’t even read His letter to them? If yo

My brother in law remarked yesterday that his 3 month old granddaughter engages with him on an eye to eye level and gives him smiles. We all love the innocence, guilelessness and total vulnerability of a new little baby and we melt when that little being recognises and responds to us. Isn’t that how God first shone His face on us when He revealed Himself in Jesus? When God became flesh He did it in a non-threatening way. He didn’t enter our world with weapons to annihilate us

Have you ever been betrayed? David was and he was so overwhelmed that he blurted out, “All men are liars” (Psa. 116:11). David had been monumentally betrayed by his best friend and perhaps you, too, have felt the same despair from the treachery of a friend. David said that he felt close to death (v3), that he was surrounded by trouble and sorrow, that he cried profusely (v8) and that he was greatly afflicted (V10). Sooner or later we all will be affected by a deceptive friend

“(God) did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,” (2 Tim. 1:9 YLT). This morning I was meditating on what must be one of the most profound verses in the Bible. Have you ever looked closely at what is being said in my opening quote? Let me spell it out. You were chosen from before creation to be a part of God’s salvation. God has sav