Paul, facing a storm which threatened the lives of all on the ship on which he was travelling to Rome, was able to pass on encouragement and hope to the others because he received a personal word from an angel from ‘the God to whom I belong and whom I serve.’ (Acts...

All of us would like life to be all about ‘plain sailing’, a metaphor describing smooth and easy progress in a process or activity. As Christians, we sometimes believe that this is what a life of faith means: the constant intervention of a benevolent God who, if He...

Ps 68:20 says, ‘our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.’ This was the experience of the 276 men on board the ship with Paul when he was journeying to Rome following his appeal to Caesar. Encouraged and sustained by Paul’s word to...