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Monday 5th June, 2023 “so God created humankind in his own image. In his image he created them. Male and female he created them” Genesis 1:27 So important is the message that we are made in God’s image that it’s repeated twice and then emphasised that it means all of us (male and female)God is …
Friday 2nd June, 2023 If the message of the bible could be summarised in one word that word would be love. God’s love for us, and God’s desire for us to be in loving harmonious relationship with both God and one another is woven throughout the entirety of the bible: From Genesis that tells us …
22nd June, 2022 I was always brought up to believe that God doesn’t have any gender, that ‘He’ is neither male nor female.[The same Christains who say that God has no gender though usually get their knickers in an especially tight knot if you refer to God as “she” or “they” or anything other than …
Tuesday 30th May, 2023 I’m not scientist, but one of the few things I remember from high school physics is the law of the conservation of energy. Science tells us that energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transferred or converted from one form of energy to another. In this blog post I suggested …
Friday 26th May, 2023 The last few descriptions of love all go together really, love bears, believes, hopes and endures. We are presented with a picture of love not as one that puts up with abuse, as many of us may have been taught to believe, but as one wholly committed to ‘pulling together’ in …
I’ve been writing about love recently, turns out I was doing last year as well. 19th May 2022 God is love.Love isn’t something God does, it’s what God is.God isn’t “loving” God is love itself. Without God, love does not exist. God is that intangible, wonderful force that, really when you think about it, as …
Monday 22nd May, 2023 If you’re a Christian and you’re following the example of Jesus then yes, yes you do. Moreover you should want to. Submission is a dirty word in our culture, misused by abusers, sexualised by the porn industry and generally misunderstood. But Jesus submitted and God wants us to do so too, …
Friday 19th May, 2023 There’s a reason I chose Always Hopeful as the name of my domestic abuse recovery programme.I thought I was hopeful when I was married.I hoped he’d be in a good mood each day, I hoped he’d be too tired to want sex when he came to bed at night, I hoped …
15th April, 2022 (Easter weekend) It was us who killed him.Not God.God did not require the death of Jesus. No wonder domestic abuse is rife in our churches.If the church is the Bride we turn the Bridegroom into an abusive husband.We portray God as abusive so is it any wonder we condone, commit or expect …
Wednesday 17th May, 2023 In a Christian Post article earlier this year, Tim Keller argued that “Todays therapeutic age focuses on self-interest” he said that the therapeutic model is “all about trying to get your mind off of the past….we’re not trying to reconcile with anybody, and we’re not drawing on God. We’re all about …