A word for the one whose world has just fallen in
The phone rings. The police are at the door. The hospital calls in the night. Someone you love is gone.
And it feels like the ground has given way.
If that is where you are, this is for you. I am not here to tidy it up. I am not here to give you a speech. I just want to sit with you and open the Word of God.
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Answering a Popular New Argument with All of Scripture
A video by the late Dr Alan Cairns first pushed me to write on this. In March 2025 I set down a short answer: can a woman be a pastor in the New Testament church? Biblically, no. That is still my stand. This piece is the longer follow-up, because a new kind of argument is doing the rounds, and it sounds careful, humble, and Bible-loving and people are falling for it.
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When the Mountains Are Carried into the Midst of the Sea
A call to prayer for Nepal
I walk the hills of Scotland and think of Nepal. This week the Himalayan wall that draws a walker’s heart has been in the news for a far heavier reason.
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Well, folks, Dolly Parton went home just the other day, on Tuesday, the 25th of August 2026. She was eighty years old. A lot of us grew up with her songs in the house; some were just country songs, you know. But some were hymns and gospel songs that pointed people to Jesus. And the Lord used even that.
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Read more: In Memory of Dolly Parton - A Word of Kindness for Her Family
The City of the Patriarchs - and the Sabbath They Were Murdered
Remembering the 1929 massacre in the light of God’s unfailing covenant.
Folks, this week we remember a dark day in a very holy place.
On the 23rd and 24th of August, 1929- that was the 17th and 18th of Av on the Jewish calendar- a mob rose up in Hebron and murdered sixty-seven Jews. Men. Women. Little children. They were killed in their homes, on the Sabbath, in the city where Abraham bought a burial cave for Sarah.
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A simple call to real, Bible-centred Christian living
You know, there’s a question every one of us who follows Jesus has to face at some point:
Do I truly love the Lord?
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From Montagu to Scotland - The 1860 Revival Legacy and Our Call to Pray Today
Healing the Land: A Call to Revival.
Folks, over Christmas I watched Richard Hunt's Adventures on YouTube, but sadly, as I finish this article 8 months later, his channel has been taken down. Richard Hunt is a born-again Christian.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about something the Apostle John wrote near the end of his life. He saw some dangerous ideas already creeping into the churches, teachings that used spiritual-sounding language but quietly pulled people away from the real Jesus. And folks, those same kinds of ideas are showing up again today.
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Read more: A Warning to the Church - False Teachings That Sound Biblical
A call to biblical faithfulness in uncertain times
Folks, something is shifting in Britain, and many of us who love the Lord can feel it in our spirits. It’s not something we enjoy talking about, but we need to look at it honestly in the light of God’s Word.
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A Word of Caution from the Scriptures
Folks, we live in days when many voices are speaking in the name of the Lord. Some of them are very popular, very dramatic, and draw large crowds.
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Well, folks, I've been pondering that Romans 9-11 has always been one of those sections of Scripture that can leave people a little uncertain.
All the talk about vessels of wrath, hardening, and “they are not all Israel who are of Israel” can feel heavy.
But when we take the time to look at these chapters in the light of the whole counsel of God, a clear and hopeful picture begins to come into view.
Let me share that picture with you simply and carefully from the Scriptures.
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