Will your anchor hold in the storms of life

I was at a funeral this morning of a man in his eighties who had been a lifetime Boys Brigade man – and of course we sang the BB Hymn. Will your anchor hold in the storms of life, When the clouds unfold their wings of strife? When the strong tides lift and the cables [...]

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Reading the Bible out loud

Recently I got a new laptop and it’s great. But there are a few teething problems… like I’ve forgotten some passwords and can’t get into my TweetDeck… which is where I normally keep in touch with some interesting blogs – like PreachersA-Z! Although TweetDeck is still playing hard to get, I caught up with Richard [...]

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Acts Chapter 29

The book of Acts is full of dramatic, exciting stories. Last Sunday 19 June 2011, I preached at my church and below is most of what I said… plus a few added visuals. The reason many people in Ireland have been reading GodActs together is because 2011 is the Biblefresh year recognising the 400th anniversary [...]

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Vision over visibility: relating to God

U2 sing of surrender to God as giving in to ‘vision over visibility’. This is what Paul is recalling here in Acts 22 as he speaks to a Jewish faith stuck in their visibility. Paul literally surrendered to a vision on the Damascus Road. GodActs Day 21: Paul – a bigot healed of his hatred! [...]

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Mary Gardner, Bible Translator d. 23 March 2011

Our Wycliffe colleague Mary Gardner hit the media headlines not for her life’s work as a Bible translator in Togo, but for the manner of her death – tragically killed, an innocent victim of a bomb in Jerusalem. As Wycliffe UK Director Eddie Arthur wrote in his blog Out of the Public Eye… Bible translators [...]

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St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Down Cathedral

While I was enjoying myself walking in the Mourne Mountains yesterday, people who were our guests at From Eden to Eternity at Stormont, were working! St Patrick had clearly ‘turned the stone’ for the Down and Dromore pilgrims making their annual journey from Saul Church to Down Cathedral on a sunny 17th March. The diocesan [...]

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Confess your sins to your iPhone

According to Christianity Today yesterday… Mark D. Roberts is one brave evangelical. After rolling his eyes upon hearing of a new iPhone app that prepares users for the Rite of Penance, the Texas-based pastor decided to try Confession: A Roman Catholic App for $1.99, and lived to write about it. Mark was impressed… “I was [...]

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Top 10 unanswerable questions…

Ask Jeeves “Top Ten Unanswerable Questions”  – see yesterday’s blog – has been picked up by BBC website. “What is the meaning of life?”, “Is there a God?” and even “Do blondes have more fun?” – these are apparently the world’s trickiest questions. Interesting that the post starts with two eternally significant questions before going [...]

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Saved by an Atheist

I get a daily e-mail from Christianity Today Direct. Often it seems just too American to me, but occasionally I find an article that sparks my interest. Such a one written by Rob Moll arrived last Wednesday. I became a Christian again during my last year of college. After years of wrestling with God and [...]

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Intensive Care Week

Philip Yancey wrote a few days ago in Christianity Today: he subtitled the piece…  Thoughts while sitting beside my brother as his brain and body failed My brother’s life did not end this summer, but in one terrifying week of progressive strokes, his brain shut down much of his body. On a Friday, he began [...]

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