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...
by simon_vb | Mar 17, 2014 | Blog
We make a host of choices about our lives every day. We decide what to eat, how to conduct ourselves, who to talk to and what about, and all kinds of other things. But sometimes we make really significant choices, choices that then impact the rest of our lives and...
by simon_vb | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog
As we continue to work through a sermon series on money and stewardship at church, I have been considering where we get our skewed worldview on money from. Yes, I know there are all kinds of influences around us making us want more things due to advertising, and to...
by simon_vb | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog
Greed is one of those sins that you feel you can identify in other people. After all, everyone knows of someone with a flashier house than us, or an expensive car, or whose lifestyle is so far above our lifestyle. But greed is horribly deceptive, and a disaster for...
by simon_vb | Feb 24, 2014 | Blog
As we continue to look through the issues around wealth for Christians at All Nations, one theme has come up in both of the last two sermons. We tend to think that money and possessions are worth far more than God says they are worth. How do you measure success? Well,...
