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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…

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…