God, you made some amazing stuff. The snow shows everything in a new light, but it’s amazing all the time. Gravity, wind, photons dappling my carpet. My iris, my fingernail, human relationships. You made them. You must love intricacy. Why is there so much of everything? And so little time. Please let me live long …
Author Archives: Andy
Christianity the pressure group
We should all ban the “Jerry Springer – the Opera” because it is blasphemous. We should ban gay marriage. We should ban abortion. We should all think the same things. Everyone in the country should bend to our will. I thought we were supposed to be building relationship with our loving personal father God, but …
Virgin birth.
Does it really matter if Mary was a virgin? Jews in those times always thought God had something to do with a new life…it was His will. Why should Jesus have ancestors (Matthew Ch 1 v 1) if He wasn’y really part of the family? Why did Mary refer to Joseph as Jesus’ father (Luke …
Questioning Doom Prophets…
Wherever I go I hear of the coming this or the coming that. “Read this book and know about this.†“God is going to do this with this nation or that with that one.†No consideration taken if I am Christian or not but I often get approached by End time “prophets of doom†as …
Fundamentalists
They are taking over the US, and they’re coming to the UK – fundamentalists are hijacking Christianity and squeezing out people with any sense at all. It makes me sick to think that Bush was re-elected by people claiming to believe in the same God as me, and the reason given by these people was …
What is a Christian?
Sometimes when I’m making a web page I want to make a link to a page just saying what a Christian is, and how to become one. I think maybe I should do that on quite a few of my web pages, because it doesn’t inconvenience anyone who isn’t interested, but it might just be …
True Saints
Why do Christians with the knowledge of Christ still have mortal diseases? Why don’t they naturally seek healing from those with the gifts of healing? There seem to be Christian Saints of the past, especially Catholics, who are prayed to for healing and are looked on as “Saints”. Actually they were just as human as …
The futility of “rethinking church”
This was going to be a well thought out article about how to “do” church better, but instead it’s a stupid article about how pointless anything like that is. Our church is planting a congregation (note: not a church, a congregation i.e. a morning service in a different place – don’t ask…) and I’m involved …
God’s love is Conditional
I recently heard a sermon by a man called David Pawson who defied anyone to show him where it says “God’s love is unconditional†in the bible. Initially it was like being hit on the head when you least expect it. However after the initial shock I listened to what his points were and as …
Why do I hate church?
Every one of my weekends is ruined by church. From Saturday lunchtime I’m ratty, and by Saturday evening I’m very nervous, and often don’t want to go to bed because of what’s coming the next morning. On Sunday lunchtime I’m filled with a deep sense of relief, and I can get on with my life. …