After last night's sermon, I was asked the question 'Do you think partial obedience is worse than disobedience?' Anything less than whole-hearted obedience is clearly not God's will for us and whilst it can be difficult to categorise in terms of 'good-better-best/...

Everyday obedience is the acid test of our faith, for Jesus told us 'If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.’ (John 15:10, see also Lev 18:4) Edwin Louis Cole says ‘obedience is an act of...

Mark continued his series on Joseph this morning, looking at Genesis 42:1-24. In this passage, Joseph comes face to face with ten of his brothers again as they journey to Egypt for food because of the severity of the famine. As they bow down before him (the...