In previous posts we have looked at some of the crucial ingredients required for the Christian life. Today we come to one more: the need to trust God. That sounds so simple. Of course we trust God. Don’t we? Why wouldn’t we? What does it mean to trust God? First, it means to believe that …
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In our last two posts we saw that two essential ingredients for growth in Christian discipleship are, first, meeting together regularly with other Christians and, second, increasing our knowledge of God and the way he thinks. In this post we’ll look at a third, starting with three Bible passages from the New Testament. Jesus said: …
Last time we saw that one of the essential ingredients for Christian life is the continual practice of meeting together with fellow believers to encourage each other and inspire each other to put our faith into practice. The early Christian leader Paul wrote to the church in the city of Colossae: …since the day we …
In previous posts we’ve looked at the importance of coming to “know” God. We’ve looked at some of the opening verses of the letter from James and seen that Christians need to ask for God’s help to see their lives and in particular their suffering and hardship from God’s point of view. Doing so will …
In the last post we considered that knowing God requires us to come to his message in the Bible with the right attitude, namely one of willingness to learn, to be corrected and to be inspired into practical action by what we read. Reading the Bible isn’t the only way that a Christian can learn …
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In the last post we considered that knowing God means having a relationship with him and undergoing a process of transformation to become more like Jesus in the way that we think and act. God made us in his image, meaning we have the potential to be like him. We also have the potential to …
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In the last post we considered that the true Christian life is about having a relationship with God and coming to know him, and that this comes about through a process of transformation and “renewing of your mind”. What does this mean? What does it require you as a Christian to do? How can you …
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In the last post we considered how the Christian faith is not simply about living a good enough life that you will be rewarded with eternal life after you die, but rather about having a relationship with God and coming to know him. Jesus said: “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the …
While the daily number of new cases of coronavirus in the UK appears to have reached its peak and is now on the way down, this does not mean the crisis is over. It certainly does not mean a return for any of us to what was previously called normal life. Here in the UK, …
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On the 8th May we remembered VE day. 75 years have passed since the announcement from Winston Churchill that the war in Europe had come to an end with the surrender of Nazi Germany. War is a terrible thing, both for those involved in the fighting and for those who wait for them to return …
Nihilist to Christian