When we study the Bible, the living Word of God, we do so in the expectation that God will speak to us today. We may learn much of history, geography, sociology and theology from the Bible, but its primary purpose is to shape us into the image of Christ as it reveals...

The last chapters of Acts (Acts 21:27-28:31) deal with Paul’s arrest, imprisonment and journey to Rome. We see how Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem leads to trouble (as prophesied by Agabus in Acts 21:11) and how his arrest leads to him appealing to Caesar, for he was a...

When I was at school, I studied A level history. One of the topics of study was the Renaissance explorers, names like Raleigh and Drake and Columbus and Vasco da Garma, who ‘sailed the ocean blue’, discovered whole new continents and greatly increased our...