Find Your Place In The Body Of Christ (2)

Do you feel like joining a different church where people are ‘more like you’? A team of missionaries to Kenya were being driven across the plains to their destination by a Masai tribal escort. En route their attention became riveted on the herds of wildebeests and...

Find Your Place In The Body Of Christ (1)

When it comes to finding a church home, your options are unlimited. Traditional, contemporary, you name it—you can probably find it! But your individual place in the Body of Christ is another matter entirely; that’s not determined by you, but by God. The Bible says,...

Murphy’s Law or God’s Law?

It’s said that in 1949 Captain Edward Murphy, an engineer working on a project for the United States Air Force, became angry because of a wrongly wired transducer. Scolding the technician responsible, Murphy said, ‘If there’s any way to do it wrong, he’ll find it!’...

Don’t ‘Suffer Fools Gladly’

Three Hebrew words are used to define the word ‘fool’ in Proverbs. (1) ‘Kesil.’ This refers to a hard-headed person who thinks he or she needs no advice. (2) ‘Ewil.’ This word has a root meaning of ‘thickening of fluids’. It refers to a thick-headed person who mocks...

An Honest Question

When Kelly James and two climbing buddies died on Oregon’s Mount Hood in the USA, his brother Frank, a professor of theology, admitted: ‘It’s one thing to talk about death in the abstract. It’s another to cope with the death of someone you love… Death is ugly. We...