Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, a panel on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is a great work of art. It shows God and man reaching towards each other, but whilst the man's wrist is limp and the index finger only slightly raised towards God, God's index finger is pointing out on …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Psalm 43 — The hostage
Psalms of the sons of Korah This psalm is consistent to someone who has been taken hostage. From the point of view of hostages, no matter how hard people are fighting to get free, nothing being done on their behalf can be seen until the point when they are freed. An instructor posing as a …
Looking after yourself
That'sthe Olympic games over until Paris 2024, as well as great sporting achievement another theme has surfaced hereand in other sports, the need to look after your mentalhealth. Naomi OsakaImage from Wikimedia Commons Naomi Osaka was the face of the Tokyo Olympic Games. In June this year she announced that she would not be taking …
You become what you worship
Christianity and fatalism Look at this passage: 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes;lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”11 Then …
Psalm 42 — The meaning of life
Psalms of the sons of Korah This is the first psalm in Book 2 of the Psalms, whilst we may think of praising God as something that people who are content do, this book starts not with a shout of praise, but with a lament from a person living with depression. Praising God is for …
Energy budgeting — disability and autism
This has not been a good week for energy. Two days of doing nothing has been my reward for being busy. Even in my usual routine I get tired. It goes like this: A physical disability causes pain, anything involving walking or standing on crutches gives pain and pain makes me tired.I have type two …
Socialism, a Christian perspective?
This blog is the second part of one I wrote about Christianity and capitalism and has its basis in the same Twitter thread asking if you can be a capitalist and a Christian. One reply was that Christianity is Communism. Image taken from a blog by Island Christian Church Communism I used to be sympathetic …
Another Exodus – Psalm 106
The 4th book of Psalms Hallelujah One teaching method used by Jesus in his ministry is the chiasm, a series of statements that are then repeated and developed in reverse order. An early one comes in Genesis 9:6 in the ESV because unlike the KJV and others it follows the word order of the Hebrew …
Capitalism, a Christian perspective?
Can you be a Christian and a capitalist? A question asked on Twitter this week and the answers were as I expected, some not only saying no, but suggesting that the teachings of Jesus are consistent with communism. I will be dealing with the socialist side of things in the second of these two blogs, …
Count your blessings – Psalm 105
The 4th book of Psalms Hallelujah! There are a lot of psalms which tell of God's faithfulness through generations, but this one focuses on two events, God saving the household of Isaac from a famine by taking them into Egypt and then years later saving the descendants of these people from what had become a …
Making an ass of myself 