by Stuart | 30 Jul 2012 | Blog
My attention was captured recently by a post on a friend’s Facebook wall. This friend, who emigrated from South Africa to New Zealand, and then to Australia some years later, posted an image of three men standing in a South African courtroom with a smug look on their...
by Stuart | 8 Jul 2012 | Blog
This morning, during our Family Bible Hour opening at church, we sang that old children’s favourite, “Jesus Loves Me.” In the particular three-verse rendition that we sing in our church, a verse of response is added: I love Jesus, does he know? Have I ever told him...
by Stuart | 11 May 2012 | Blog
In 2006 Sean Davison, a professor at the biotechnology department of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), visited his aging mother, Patricia, in Dunedin, New Zealand. Davison’s mother, then 85, was a retired general practitioner and psychiatrist. She had been...
by Stuart | 13 Mar 2012 | Blog
I recently started reading The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie. “The movie,” by the same name, is based on real-life events, though it has been rather substantially Holywoodised. The “true events” were events that unfolded in the life of Kim and Krickitt...
by Stuart | 3 Nov 2011 | Blog
It has often been said that the Bible is a book that must be mined for its treasures. The more work you put into the serious study of Scripture, the greater you will be blessed by what you find. That is true of study, but it is often equally true of simply reading...
by Stuart | 24 Oct 2011 | Blog
In Family Bible Hour recently, we had some discussion regarding the sovereignty of God and what it means practically to us. It struck me afresh during our discussion that our understanding of God’s sovereignty, or at least of its day-to-day implications, is often...
