Welcome to my website
I am a pastor and Christian educator.
In a nutshell, this is what I do…
Understand the Bible
My online ministry focussed on creating videos and songs to teach the Bible and the Christian faith.
The Bible Uncancelled
A short, weekday thought from the Bible published on video or podcast.
This Blog
I only write occasionally here now, as my attention is focussed on the two things I mention above. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, these posts are all still accessible.
Latest Posts
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The Trinity: What’s the Point?
The theologian Robert Letham once wrote: For the vast majority of Christians, including most ministers and theological students, the Trinity is still a mathematical conundrum, full of imposing philosophical jargon, relegated to an obscure alcove remote from daily life. (Source) I wonder if that’s something you can identify with? Is the Trinity something which you’ve…
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The Woman at the Well
And by ‘the woman at the well’ I mean the ‘woman of Samaria’ of John 4. You know, the fattest woman in the Bible (the “woman of some area”… geddit? GEDDIT? HAHAHAHA! Sorry.) Anyway, we were studying John 4 in our class a couple of weeks ago, and I really enjoyed it. In our class…
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Sermon: Genesis 42-45, Joseph and his Brothers Reconciled
On Sunday night I preached at the evening service of Christ Church Cockfosters. I haven’t got the audio available just yet, but if you’d like to read the approximate text of what I preached, I’ve attached the script. If I get the audio too I will update this post. You might want to have the passage…
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Knowing God: Children of God
This is the final part of my lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. I’ve now finished reading ‘Knowing God’, and I found it to be an excellent book! I’d like to blog on just one more chapter – although all of them were helpful. The chapter in question talks about being…
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Knowing God: God’s Wrath
This is part of my lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. A few years ago we went to New Word Alive (you may remember me blogging about the experience … but probably not). Anyway, I recall thinking in one of the main meetings, “every song we’ve sung tonight so far…
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Knowing God: God’s Love
This is part of my Lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. “God is Love” has to be one of the most famous statements about God in the Bible (1 John 4:8, 16) – it’s in the passage which is often read out at weddings. But, it is also one of…
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Knowing God: God’s Wisdom
This is the third part of blogging my way through “Knowing God” – see the intro post here. Yesterday I read the chapter “God’s Wisdom and Ours”, which I really needed to hear! One thing which I found particularly helpful was Jim Packer’s analogy about a railway station. Allow me to explain. If you go…
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Co-workers with God
This is the second of my lenten reflections on Knowing God (see the first post here). I’m not going to be blogging my way through every chapter, but only bits and pieces that strike me particularly. Well, I was especially struck when reading the chapter ‘Knowing and Being Known’: What happens is that the almighty Creator,…
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Lenten Reflections: Knowing God
So, it’s Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent. I’ve decided not to give anything up; rather, I’ve decided to give myself a task: I’ve decided to read Knowing God by Jim Packer. It’s sat on my shelf for a while now unread, and when I suggested it to someone else to read I…
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The Mountain of Joy
What with the one thing and another, it’s been a bit doom and gloom here lately. Every so often I see or read something which really strikes me in a positive way, and I had that experience a couple of days ago. I was reading through the New Testament, preparing for a test next week.…