ephesians-2:10

The Normal Way "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God". This is what happened at the beginning of all things - the Being whom we know in human history as Jesus of Nazareth - expressed God. He was God's Living Word - He was God Himself separate from Himself in a... Read More

Playing Catch-Up? Many of us think of Our Creator as playing "catch-up". We imagine his creation of the world and us in terms of our own small minds. We can grasp that He wated children whom He could love and enjoy; we can even understand that they could not be His children unless they had freedom o... Read More

Have you ever thought what it would be like to be the creator of the universe ? Obviously you and I have great difficulty imagining that because the creator must be infinitely wise and powerful to make a sun that can contain a million earths and other constellations that are millions of times the si... Read More

Can a man live without air? Can you survive without breath? That's what man has done! The man Jesus, who made his physical body visible in the first century, explained what was going to happen to him in these words: "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the... Read More

Why do we worry? Many of us answer: "Because our father was a worrier." Why do we lose our temper? Most of us have been taught that our present nature is the result of heredity plus environment -- and we attribute our heredity to our earthly parents and their forebears. Indeed, most of us would say ... Read More

Often we feel the urge to do something noble - something really unselfish - something for someone else. We wonder where such a feeling comes from. Although we don't think of ourselves as mean, unpleasant people, yet we know we're often moved by concern about ourselves. So we feel a little elated eve... Read More

Because the Creator of the universe made us part of his own son! That's the startling truth. Before the earth was made - indeed, before the universe was created - God conceived a Son like Himself - with the nature and power that He Himself possesses. At that same moment (if one can talk about a mome... Read More

Peggy Lee was a famous jazz singer. One of her hits was entitled `Is that all there is ?' It referred, of course, to life and its many experiences and implied that it's all rather disappointing and `a bit of a let-down'. Whether you think this or not, you've probably wondered what its purpose really... Read More

Who Was Socrates? Socrates is regarded as the father of logic. The "Socratic" method of question and answer is the basis of all our teaching techniques. The great Greek philosopher used it skilfully to motivate his students to think more deeply about truth. Although he lived hundreds of years before... Read More

Most of us believe that there is some Being somewhere who created the universe. It's too irrational to imagine that this complex network of planets came from nowhere. Someone somewhere must have created the original thing that exploded or evolved into what we know as the planet Earth. Most of us als... Read More