Suppose someone else could give us a sound biblical explanation; would it take away the hurt?

Ephesians is a letter that's been compared to a sermon – it's so full of deep thinking about the implications of the gospel for the daily life of the Christian.

If God made male and female in his image, what does that make God?

One of the most precious parts of the Bible to many Christians is the book of Psalms. They reflect every kind of human experience – joy, grief, rage, frustration, it's all there. We go to Psalms when we want to find our own lives echoed in Scr...

Out of all the billions of people in the world, no two people have the same fingerprints. Each one of us is unique, and that uniqueness is far more than skin deep.

‘You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.’

The usual way that Christians understand the Bible to be a book from God is to say that he inspired it.

In the wider world, the Bible – and religious faith in general – is sometimes dismissed as a ‘private’ thing, designed to feed someone's personal spiritual life but with no wider relevance.

‘During the pandemic, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The verse that helped me was a verse that’s been with me all my adult life, Psalm 16.8, “I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken”.

From the 1990s I became a freelance internal auditor. I worked for lots of different clients and had a spell working for a large local council. I was contacted by someone I had worked for before.

Isaiah 40 is the most important passage to me. My father was dying of cancer. He had lost a lot of weight and looked like a young man again, the young man we saw in family photos.

If you’re looking for an example of faith, courage and trust in God, Rahab is an excellent Old Testament example. Her story is full of lessons that can help us in our own lives today. 

Psalm 27 came into my life in the last 10 years. My mum had died, and my dad was still alive then. I’d got divorced and was bringing the children up myself, with help from my parents. Then a lump was found in my lung.

I was at theological college in Durham and had the opportunity to do a summer placement at a theological college in the North-West of Kenya. I jumped at the chance.

I went to Bible college 11 months after becoming a Christian. That was ridiculous really, but I felt I had a calling. I felt so much peace and my whole attitude had changed. I had always been angry, but then everything had changed.

I joined the RAF and became a photographic interpreter, where you analyse photographs taken by aircraft. I was posted to an intelligence unit and had gone from being in the valleys

Poverty: A moral crisis

I worked in finance. I had a big salary and a comfortable life, but I felt a sense of calling to the ministry.When I was trying to understand if God was calling me, I went back to the beginning of my story.

What I want to get over is that God is always faithful. I’ve been a Christian for 59 years and he’s always been faithful. 1 Corinthians 1.9 says, “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son

Read the book of Isaiah and you’ll quickly realise that it is not a biography. The focus is on the message, not the man who proclaimed it. We do know about his calling, though: a close encounter with the majesty, holiness and mercy of God left Isa...