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Anger and wrath

Posted on June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by Pastor Dave

The book of Proverbs contains so many proverbs that we clearly won’t be able to look at them all, but rather topic by topic pick out a few that give right direction. Remember as we said yesterday they are proverbs not promises. They direct how, if we are wise, we will look at this world, […]

A stitch in time saves nine

Posted on June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 by Pastor Dave

I’m sure we all learned a number of proverbs as we grew up, generally a pithy saying that contains an often true statement. We are all familiar with proverbs such as “too many cooks spoil the broth” and yet because of the “often true” rather than “always true” nature of them we can even find […]

What can I do?

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 by Pastor Dave

And the second question from Weds night’s session was: What are some of the ways government and society fail to treat human life with the dignity it deserves because we are made in God’s image? What role should the church play in exhorting the culture to respect and preserve human life at every stage of […]

Behaving towards God’s image bearers

Posted on June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 by Pastor Dave

As yesterday evening’s session tied together so well with the subject of this week’s posts, I thought that for today and tomorrow I’d simply address the two questions that were posed for discussion after the video. So for this morning: James 3:7–10 draws out several implications for how the fact that all people are made […]

The sanctity and dignity of human life in the New Testament

Posted on June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by Pastor Dave

So we’ve seen how we have all been created to image God, but how as a result of the Fall none of us can image Him to any significant degree other than by the grace of God in salvation, sanctification and glorification. So where does that leave how we speak of, speak towards and act […]

The sanctity of human life – (part 2) The Fall

Posted on June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 by Pastor Dave

If you spend any time considering the truth that we are created capable of imaging God, then probably the first thing that impresses itself upon you is that we fail abysmally! And you would be right. In some areas we do well: like God we too can be very creative, like God we too can […]

The sanctity of human life – part 1

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 by Pastor Dave

Who can have missed the massive response that has occurred both in the USA and in Britain following the killing of George Floyd? I want to use these posts through this week to re-examine and clarify what the Bible teaches on human life. But let me start today by simply explaining why I want to […]

All evildoers

Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 by Pastor Dave

Have you ever heard the well-worn expression “God hates the sin but loves the sinner”? It is claimed by many to be how God relates to His fallen world – He hates the sin but loves the sinner. And it certainly sounds good, it appears to hold a tension between an abhorrence of sin and […]

All praise Him

Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by Pastor Dave

Psalm 148 is not a long Psalm (just 14 verses) and it has but one focus, but what a glorious focus it is – that everyone and everything should praise God! The word “all” actually occurs 10 times (ESV) in this Psalm as the writer insists that not only should God’s praise come from all […]

All peoples

Posted on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 by Pastor Dave

Having said that I’d focus on the Psalms, I seem to have further focused in on references to “All” (either directly or indirectly) within the Psalms. All peoples! At a time when the western world’s focus is very much on the colour of one’s skin, what could be more wonderful than to remind ourselves that […]