Mum is 86 today, and suffering from dementia. It is sad to watch the deterioration of someone you love as she is slowly being overcome by a disease that leaves the body mostly unaffected but takes away all that makes the person who they are. Traces of personality are either taken away or twisted or …
Hearts and minds
A few days ago I wrote about the worldwide growth in Christianity. How the decline of the church in the west is more than offset by growth in developing nations. But what has caused the decline. In Anglicanism (the tradition I know best) in the UK it is not all decline. Evangelicals seem to be …
Get angry…
Get angry... ...but do not sin. So says Paul's advice to the church in Ephesus, he adds to this, 'Don't stay angry all day.' (Ephesians 4: A lot of people see the negative things said about anger in the Bible and think it is wrong to get angry, but they miss the fist two words. Get …
Bias to the poor.
And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And …
Giving up church for Lent
Rest awhile Google's goofing off policy is dead, or so it was reported in 2013. I suppose that is not surprising for a company on the stock exchange. What is surprising is that it has taken so long, as the company was floated in 2004. It isn't really about goofing off. It is just that …
Christianity is growing
... Slowly. In the west Christianity is in decline, but if it were as bad as some make out, its a wonder there's a church left in some countries at all. I some countries there are boasts of growth, such as the growth of protestantism in France and Brazil, but decline in membership of the …
Moses
Jesus is better than Moses, ner, ner, ner. This is not the tone of the next section of Hebrews, We are moving in to a long, long section of the book which deals with Jesus being greater than the Jewish Law given by Moses, so first he deals wit the one who brought the law, …
Year of the shoat
Or is that a geep? Whichever it is there is a problem. Because if this is the Chinese tear of the sheep, or year of the goat, or year of the ram ... the problem in English is that these are all translations of one Chinese word. So how do the Chinese deal with that …
Hebrews in Haiku 3
The law, it is good But Jesus Christ alone is Greater than the law 40 blogs of Lent day 12
The visitor
We had a visitor in church yesterday. Catherine Lee. our mission partner with CMS is over from Taiwan, visiting the partner churches. Today was our turn. What we learned was... well we learned a lot, But after the service and after some food we learned how the church in Taiwan was started because of a …
Making an ass of myself 