by simon_vb | Jul 21, 2014 | Blog
When was the last time you asked someone how their week has been, and they answered with “You know what, I really don’t have enough to do. I find myself playing computer games and being bored”? If your experience is like mine, the answer is ‘never’. Almost always...
by simon_vb | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog
Last Sunday we were working through 1 Peter 2:11-25 in the sermon, and one of the issues in the passage was the command to be subject to every human institution, including governments. Peter even mentions the emperor specifically, and we know that the first century...
by simon_vb | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog
We recently held an evangelistic night at church with a talk on ‘Is it reasonable to believe in God when there is so much pain and suffering in the world?’ The programme was very straightforward, introduction, testimony, talk, song, Q&A, supper. And because we...
by simon_vb | May 27, 2014 | Blog
Last Friday night I posed a question to the church members who had gathered to study the Bible together: how is being part of a church different to catching a bus? After all, both cases have a group of people heading in the same direction. After we got past the more...
by simon_vb | May 19, 2014 | Blog
“There is more than one way to skin a cat”. Now I have no idea why you would need a variety of ways to skin a cat, but I am sure that is true. No, this is not a blog entry about animal cruelty; it is about how you might preach on a book of the Bible. My pattern as a...
