by Stuart | 23 Nov 2021 | Devotionals, Identifying Idols
The age in which we live is, in access to knowledge, unprecedented. More than any generation before ours, we have the knowledge of the world at our fingertips. The smartphone gives instant access to all the knowledge ever gained by humankind with a few swipes of the...
by Stuart | 22 Nov 2021 | Devotionals, Identifying Idols
The prophet Isaiah frequently contrasted the true God with the false gods of the nations. As Israel experienced punishment for its sin, God time and again reminded his people that he is the true God while the idols that they worshipped, and the idols of the foreign...
by Stuart | 19 Nov 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
This is the last of my devotionals in the Psalms. The document containing all these posts, before today, comprised 102,318 words. That’s toward the upper end word count of a commercial novel! In many ways, it feels like the end of the line. Commentators have long...
by Stuart | 18 Nov 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
One of the enduring debates in the Christian church is the appropriate attitude to war. Christians universally recognise that war is not good, but there is debate on whether or not it is ever necessary. The predominant view is just war theory: that war, though never...
by Stuart | 17 Nov 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
Jesus once told a Samaritan woman that God is looking for worshippers who will worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24). Worship, in other words, should be offered enthusiastically (“spirit”) and according to how God has revealed himself (“truth”). It might sound...
