Author: nickjones2011

Imagine you see 2 frozen lakes, for some reason, one has a very thin layer of ice, the other really thick, and you want to walk on the ice. This is a bad idea, but for the purposes of illustration, if you were going to do it, which is better, a really strong faith in…

How do you know that you are loved in a world that is full of so much pain & suffering?We might be reassured by the love and care that we receive from others and see that as an evidence of God’s love. There’s a sense in which that’s true, John tells us “love is from…

She’s the spit of him! She has his nose! He has his ears!He’s just like his dad! Very often we can’t help but display the family likeness, sometimes it’s in what we look like, other times it may be our behaviour. In our reading from 1 John 3, the apostle John is encouraging the Christians…

How can I be forgiven? How can there be total forgiveness? Surely for God to be just he must punish sin? Surely if God is light, he cannot tolerate any darkness in his presence? What about the times we’ve lost our tempers, been unloving, unkind, impure, lied, thought only about our own interests? In this…

It is such a blessing to know the one true living God, but how do you know that you know Him? That’s what John is writing about in this wonderful letter of 1 John. John is writing to believers who had been shaken by false teachers. They thought they knew God, they were part of…

Peter must have felt like such a failure, he’d been out fishing all night and had caught nothing. For you and I that may be disappointing, but Peter is a fisherman! This is his job, this is what he’s good at. Then, there’s a friendly piece of advice from the shore “cast the net on…

What is the most significant event in history? Taken together with His atoning death, surely the resurrection of Jesus is the greatest thing that has ever happened. It changes everything forever! In our reading from John 20 we see the disciples huddled together, terrified that the ones who killed their master would be coming after…

If ever there was a time to think of your own interests, surely this is it. Jesus has been abandoned, interrogated, flogged, stripped, nailed to a cross and yet at his weakest moment, he still cares deeply for others. We see something of his love as he cares for his dear mother Mary. This is…

Back in 2008 there was a bus campaign in England organised by the atheist Richard Dawkins. His message was: “There’s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” He probably thought it was a bit of harmless fun, but he was only trotting along after King Belshazzar. This king desired to mock all…

Isn’t it amazing that as Jesus faces the agony of the cross, He stops and looks ahead down at least 2 millennia to pray for all who will believe in Him. Are you a believer? Then our Lord Jesus has prayed for you! Psalm 88 gives us a window into the suffering Jesus was facing…