Mary and Joseph had to go on a very inconvenient journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem as ordered by the occupying Roman government. Joseph’s ancestors went…
Is God’s Name “I AM”?
In Scripture a name is more than what you put on your letterbox. We have an expression, “he made a name for himself”. This means…
The hardened heart
At the close of Matthew’s gospel we read of the women coming to the tomb of Jesus. There was a violent earthquake and an…
The web of “experts”
I lived for nearly twenty years in Denmark. It was there that I got my first driving licence. When we moved to Scotland I asked…
Traditional teaching about death
In the Old Testament when a patriarch died it is recorded that he was buried and slept with his fathers. The Greeks had a very…
Traditional Bible Translation
Traditional Bible Translation You can’t just feed the original Bible manuscripts into a machine and expect a perfect translation to come out – Why? 1.…
A challenge to tradition – the trinity
When a Trinity believer reads Ephesians 1, he must surely be like someone driving down the road on a dark night and being blinded for…
The traditions of evolution
The basic building blocks for all living things are AMINO ACIDS and there are twenty of them. They form chains which take on particular shapes.…
The tradition of Jews and Israelites
The first time we find the term Jews is when we read in II Kings of the Israelites and Syrians attacking them. David’s grandson Rehoboam…