The Bible and eclipses

The Bible doesn’t use the word ‘eclipse’, but does describe the effects of both solar and lunar eclipses. This is a good example of how, as we understand more about the world, we understand more about the Bible as well.

Re-telling stories

Telling stories is an important part of how the Bible was written. But how reliable were those stories before they were written down? Recent research on the accuracy of Indigenous Australian story-telling shows how reliable it can be!

World without God?

The cover article of this week’s edition of the New Scientist explores what they think a ‘World Without God’ would look like. It won’t surprise you that I think there’s a few flaws in the article… (as well as some more interesting points!)

Amos sermon: Seeing it as it is

This sermon is part of a sermon series on Amos and was in part a response to the phone hacking scandal. As is clear from the first paragraph, this was preached on 10th July 2011! (I also preached the first sermon in the series). I’ve edited it slightly, but it’s a bit of a mixture of…

Amos sermon: Awesome God

My opening sermon in a sermon series on Amos was entitled ‘Awesome God’ and is on Amos 1 and 2. The book that I found most helpful when preparing this was Teaching Amos by Bob Fyall. It was preached at the end of May 2011. Later in the same series, I also preached on Amos…

Amos sermon series

I recently prepared a sermon series for church on the book of Amos, currently one of things I’m spending time focusing on. The series, I thought, allowed us to tackle some of the things going on in the world and in our community in a relevant way; it wasn’t at all a stretch to relate…

Review of ‘Teaching Amos’

The book of Amos is currently one of the things that I’m spending a lot of time thinking about. As part of that I was able to prepare a sermon series on Amos. The book that I found most helpful when preparing this sermon series was Teaching Amos by Bob Fyall. I was studying at…