Story Barbel Mohr was a best-selling German author who wrote the book The Cosmic Ordering Service: A Guide to Realizing your Dreams which sold more than a million copies. This is the book made famous by television presenter Noel Edmonds’s admission that he used it to get his deepest longings Read more…
Consider two conversations about Science and God on the streets of Leeds. Less Fruitful Conversation “Hello, my name is Susan and I believe that only science tells us the truth. This means that Christianity is a load of rubbish.” “We don’t talk about stuff like that in our church. But Read more…
How can we serve God outside the church sphere? Many Christians today are aware of the problem of dualism: the sacred/secular split. It’s easy to understand that preachers, pastors, evangelists and apologists are serving God but what about cobblers and French teachers? William Tyndale (1494-1536) is famous for translating the Read more…
It was a very good evening last night. Justin Brierley interviewed Andrew Bunt and Charlie Bell on one of the burning issues of the day. Is a practising, gay lifestyle compatible with biblical teaching? I thought the tone and the content were excellent. Justin was gracious, as always, and both Read more…
In the Bible there are many stories of God speaking to people in dreams. In Genesis chapter 41 God spoke to Pharaoh in a dream about fat and ugly cows. In Daniel 4 God spoke to king Nebuchadnezzar in a dramatic tree dream that made him terrified. In Matthew 2 Read more…
During this advent season we often think about the Magi who came to worship Jesus. We don’t know if they were astrologers but we do know about the dark astrological faith of the emperor Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD) who reigned during the final years of our Lord and Read more…
I remember going to the doctor twenty years ago. I was suffering from panic attacks. I told the doctor that my breathing was a bit of a nightmare. I was very distressed. I couldn’t sleep. I was even watching obscure Argentinian football games on the gogglebox at 3 in the Read more…
Hollywood films are great to enjoy over a carton of popcorn. Enjoy but be discerning. They often promote a popular and pervasive form of secular faith. Don’t be mugged by the Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Let me explain. At the beginning of the 2001 movie Legally Blond Elle Woods Read more…
In the past many believed in the Bible and God’s Word. A few still do. Then secularism destroyed this faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Some replaced God with the Nation. Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead and the elite Supermen (Übermenschen) would take his place. Communists preferred the ‘Working Read more…
Tokusan (780 – 865) was a tough and cantankerous Chinese Zen master. He wielded a menacing bamboo stick. His Zen pedagogy was known as ‘Tokusan’s thirty blows’. Tokusan would say to his disciples: “If you speak rightly I will give you thirty blows. If you speak wrongly, I will also Read more…