Author: nickjones2011

“How long O Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide you face from me?” (Psalm 13)We know what this feels like don’t we? How long must I suffer this painful disease? How long must I suffer with anxiety / depression? How long will this war go on? How long must I…

Do you ever feel insignificant? Unimportant? If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, then Revelation 7 tells you that you are so important to God, that He deliberately held back on judgment day until you came in! Revelation 7 gives us a picture of God holding back the storm of His judgment until He…

Sometimes people say something like, “If God is all-powerful and all-loving, then he would not allow suffering. Suffering exists, therefore there cannot be an all-powerful, all-loving God.” I spent about 8 years in this sort of position after my mum died at age 46. But our reading from Revelation 6 gives us another answer. It…

What if there was no end to suffering, disability, depression or cancer? What if bullies got away with it? What if there was no end to war? What if evil was never punished and there was no end to the suffering in the world? I couldn’t cope, could you? We need hope of a better…

Who is in control of this world? Do you ever wonder that? As things seem to spiral out of control, maybe you ask, is anyone in control? If you’re living in Ukraine, you would fear that Putin is in control. If you’re in Afghanistan, you would fear the Taliban are in control. The apostle John…

Why do Christians around the world face such awful persecution? Why is the gospel so offensive? In some cultures it is the uniqueness of Christ, in others it is the truth that we can’t save ourselves, yet others protest about the moral teaching. In Philadelphia (Revelation 3), the believers were being persecuted because they refused…

Esther’s problems did not seem light and momentary, but heavy and enduring. The king (her husband), had just agreed to a plan of ethnic cleansing to totally destroy the Jews. The plan had come about because of the fury of Haman against Mordecai. But behind Haman’s evil intent, was Satan who since Genesis 3 has…

“Things have never been so bad!” It’s a phrase you may have heard people saying. I imagine it’s something that every generation has said at some point. Certainly we get to hear more from across the world today and so it may feel there are more disasters, but as we read the Bible we see…

What an incredible privilege, we are invited to praise God! In Psalm 95 we are invited to come and sing praise to God. By our nature we could not come into God’s presence, but v1 tells us that He is not only LORD but also the rock of our salvation. We can come into His…