It's Father's Day on Sunday, and this week Bible Society is focusing on some biblical fathers. Some of them get it right, some don't – but they all tell us something about the challenges of fatherhood today.

When Jesus’ disciples asked him to teach them how to pray, he gave them no course book or lecture series but a simple, 60-second prayer. It’s been at the heart of Christian worship ever since.

‘I was 18 and in the first term of uni studying industrial product design. I really liked the Christian Union. It was social. But there were Bible studies going on. They were going through 1 John. On this particular evening, they read verses 4-5: ...

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

Most Christians believe that the Old Testament should be interpreted in the light of the New Testament.

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.

On 16 June 1991 my husband had a stroke in our kitchen. It was a devastating time. My 17-year-old son was standing behind him. I can remember shouting, “He’s dying”. My husband said afterwards that was what made him not die.

I was involved in an horrendous car accident. I had pain in my leg, but they were more worried about the serious head injuries and the fact that I’d been out of it for a bit.

Peter’s mother-in-law is my all-time biblical heroine. I was reading Mark 1, preparing for a sermon, and her story came alive for me. We always hear about how Jesus healed her, she got up and cooked a meal. But when we read that it was the Sabbath

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

My husband, Brian, had a tumour in his brain that was giving him seizures. It had been growing for years, but when he had a ten-hour operation to remove it, it was the size of a lemon.

In 1971 I was privileged to be offered a position for the NSPCC, running a playgroup in Belfast. I had always worked with children. The first day I went in, I wasn’t prepared

I was married to Rosemary for 59 years. I liked everything about her. She was a lovely person: intelligent and able. She had a number of health issues and in 2020 was identified as needing a vaccine straight away.

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...

‘Romans 10.14 says, “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?”

I had some dark times in my life when I lacked certainty and John 6.37 gave me the thought that I didn’t have to be perfect. I realised that, lo and behold, I wasn’t perfect.

‘I love the psalms and particularly Psalm 121.1 which says, “I lift my eyes to the hills, where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.”

I was about 19. Somebody had given me a book about people’s testimonies. All of them had talked about the Holy Spirit coming into their lives and the difference that it made. I didn’t know how the Holy Spirit came into your life.

What actually happened on Easter Sunday? In this part of the world, only a minority associate Easter with a crucified man returning from the grave. We’ve all been to school. We’ve done our basic history, physics, and biology. We’ve been taught ...

When the Holy Spirit made his home inside Jesus’ followers at Pentecost, on top of receiving the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, they received spiritual gifts. From that day on, they could speak in tongues, prophesy, and perform miracle...