Tonight's Bible study looked at the letters to the churches in Smyrna and Pergamum (Revelation 2) and saw that Christ speaks to churches in ways that are intensely relevant to their particular situations. To Smyrna, a city which had been literally destroyed and...

I have been re-reading one of my favourite books, Eugene Peterson's "Five Smooth Stones For Pastoral Work", and looking again at the book of Lamentations, a book written during a period of enormous suffering following the siege of Jerusalem and subsequent exile of...

Psalm 89:15 in the Message version says, 'blessed are people who know the passwords of praise', but this can make it sound as though praising God requires great feats of memory which will be beyond most people. The NIV says, 'blessed are those who have learned to...