Respect

Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honour the king (1 Peter 2:17). One of the things we complain about as we get older is what we perceive as a lack of respect, particularly among the young. We maintain they do not show the same degree of respect to their

God Our Father

The idea of God as Father is a conspicuous emphasis in the faith and life of Christians. When Jesus taught us to pray, he began “Our Father in heaven”. In this blog I want to examine what it is for God to be our father. Its importance lies in the centrality of the fatherhood of

Mental Illness and the Bible

In a previous blog, I wrote about my own experience of mental illness. I noted that mental illness in general, which includes common conditions such as depression and anxiety as well as rarer ones such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and eating disorders, is remarkably common and that as many as one in four people suffer