Mary, Jesus, John the Evangelist

  I’m not sure why, but this grabbed my attention this morning when I spotted it on Twitter Today’s Art – probably it was the use of Scripture within the painting and the way it is so relevant to the three characters depicted here and in the other panels which you can link to below. [...]

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Wycliffe and Me | Belfast | Saturday 25 February 2012

Looking forward to this tomorrow… twenty plus people expected.

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Start Spreading the News!

Yesterday, together with my friends in Saintfield Road Presbyterian Church in Belfast, I started to read through the Book of Acts following the Biblefresh logo-ed GodActs. This has been produced by the Presbyterian Board of Mission in Ireland – and I had the pleasure of being on the working group that put it together. In [...]

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Don’t get lost in the wordy woods…

Eddie Arthur drew my attention to this excellent blog today from Quaerentia The 400th Anniversary of the King James is everywhere. And that’s fantastic. There’s perhaps a greater chance of it being read by British people this year than there has been for years. However Quaerentia fears that the Word may get lost in the [...]

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The AV is a remarkable translation… read on

Eddie Arthur has added a second blog on Authorized Myths He sets his discussions firmly in the context that we live in a story: It is much more accurate to see the AV as fitting into the story of God’s work in the Church down through the ages. Since the miracle at Pentecost in Acts [...]

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First Bible translation in English was…

… not the King James / Authorised version! And yet the myth persists as 2011 begins and Christians celebrate the 400th anniversary of this influential version of the Bible in the English language. Friend and colleague Eddie Arthur has posted an excellent blog on this topic. This morning, a prominent British Christian (name withheld to [...]

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Biblefresh New Year Prayer

Father God We thank you for the year ahead – a gift to us – full of promise. This year, we want to know you more intimately, follow you more faithfully, share you more passionately and worship you more deeply. As we celebrate your Word, we pledge: – To read the Bible – together and [...]

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The Best Christmas Ever

Have you had a good Christmas? Has the wonder and significance of the Incarnation been re-newed for you? Perhaps through watching “The Nativity” on BBC television.. perhaps through something that happened in your church this year? Here is a story of something new that happened in some churches in NW Cameroon this Christmas. I post [...]

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Volvo Brakes + Haitian Prayer

To get the link and how it all adds up to wise advice for preachers as 2011 looms, you will have to read Richard Littledale at Preachers’ A-Z Some of those closest to me will be well pleased if I take the prayer below to heart. “Lord, help us not to talk too much Because [...]

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Without love: “A dropped biscuit tin in an empty kitchen”

Thanks to Maggi Dawn for this re-working on 1 Corinthians 13; love it and couldn’t resist re-blogging it! But it’s also a clear call to humility… by an unknown author, after St Paul: Even if I pack the Albert Hall with the power of my salvation message Or my books require their own Amazonian warehouse [...]

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