The coming of the New Year is always the signal for a rash of resolutions to break out, most of which, though well-intentioned, have a very short life-expectancy, as the insurance people might put it. But with the thought of the passage of time…

A pocket diary can be a mine of information. Lest you be tempted to forget, and go to work when you should stay at home, it lists the Public Holidays. It carries a range of postal information. It may include such valuable information as that russet…

“A man’s prayer is only heard if he puts his soul in his hand.” So runs the axiom of the Rabbis, and it stands as a crushing rebuke for the tepid self-seeking which passes for prayer with so many of us today. The saying is based…

The ancient Egyptian, so I have read somewhere, did not think of sin as rebellion against God, but simply as an understandable aberration, The ancient Greeks had no idea of the wrath of God, but conceived of their various deities as passionless…

The late Archbishop W. Temple once said “The wise question is not ‘Is Christ divine?’ but ‘What is God like?’ This was his way of driving home the point that the question of the deity of our Lord is not simply an…

Paul had no hesitation in speaking of the time when “the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”…

Have you ever noticed how naturally we take pride in our own achievement and rejoice in what our own strong right arm has been able to perform? In matters religious, just as in all others, the tendency is for us to put the emphasis on what we ourselves…