One of my favourite films is ‘Galaxy Quest’, a comedy which parodies sci-fi films (and the television series ‘Star Trek’ in particular) about a troupe of actors who end up inadvertently defending a group of real aliens against an alien warlord. One of my favourite...

Grace and mercy are twin sides of a coin. Grace is God's unmerited favour, the blessings He pours out on us every day which we don't deserve. Someone has defined grace as 'getting what we don't deserve' and mercy as 'not getting what we do deserve!' The dictionary...

It took me a long time work out why disobedience is so condemned in the Bible. I come from a background where obedience is the norm and my personality is such that I tend to obey instinctively, mostly because I like pleasing people and want to gain a lot of my...