I think seeing a baby days after it’s been born is a hugely spiritual moment. The wonder of new life. The hope for the future while things are brand new and perfect. It’s an experience I run to at every opportunity. A tiny glimpse perhaps of how God sees us. You see this helpless baby […]
“God is closer than you think” by John Ortberg. This is a good book. I haven’t even finished it yet, but I keep annoyingly recommending it to people and saying how it has changed my life etc. So, I thought I’d do a short post on it - kinda.
Briefly, the book talks about how you can train […]
‘That’s great I’m happy for you’. ’If it helps you that’s wonderful’. ’I understand that is true for you’.
Ever heard these kind of statements from people today? Relativism is a common trend in postmodernism and taken to its extremes erodes the whole concept of truth. If something is true, can it be true for me and not true […]
If the bible is not an instruction manual for life, neither is it the sum total of God’s word. As Dallas Willard writes in Hearing God,
‘…the word is much greater than the bible, though inclusive of it. The Bible is the word of God in its unique written form. But the bible is not Jesus […]
I was thinking about the mathematical challenge of the Trinity today (as you do). Seemingly 1+1+1=1 in the mathematics of the Godhead. Then it occurred to me that this is exactly right in the case of orthogonal vectors. That is:
If you think of 3 axes, x,y and z and three vectors of length (or […]
Après church aims to be a place for the spiritually curious. We want to take time to revel in the mystery and the beauty of life and to help each other make sense of it all. The more one learns about God, the more questions He raises in us. The more He reveals, the […]
On sunday, Teddy Sheringham became the premiership’s oldest goalscorer with a classic header from the edge of the box against Blackburn. Lee Dixon later observed that Teddy’s strength is his willingness to remain in a good position once he has found one, even if it means being rooted to the spot for a while, where as younger players […]
The subject of today’s sermon got us debating this question further. But how do you describe the indescribable? Isn’t it even a bit sacreligious to even suggest that we can have a mental picture of God? Any picture anyone could possibly come up with would be so far short of the reality as to be […]