EXPLORING THE BIBLE

“I believe in the God who is made known and available to me through Jesus Christ – that is, a personal God, who I believe knows me as an individual, cares for me, and enables and inspires me to live my life with a firm sense of purpose and a deep satisfaction in the service of others”. Professor Alister McGrath of Oxford

How do we work out what it means to live as disciples in everyday life? A number of examples are provided as we consider how to follow Christ’s leading in our community life.

My God guides me in the way that I live so that others may see Him at work in my life and not just a set of rules and regulations

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, all is vanity! I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after the wind. The Hebrew word for vanity, means transitory and unsatisfactory, fleeting, like the wind.  “What is vanity? What...

Hosea assures us that though we may suffer the consequences of turning away, and chasing after the wind, God will hear our repentance and welcome each one back and “return us home.”

The Big Bang and Evolution claim that time and chance produced the universe and life – a mere random process. This passage makes a different claim: By the Son, the second person of the Trinity, all things were created: through him and for him. Random things do not cohere, but in him all things hold together – make sense.