What is God's love?
It’s February and we think of Valentine’s Day and along with that ‘love’. What do we understand by that word ‘love’? On the day that the...
Steve Richards
Feb 2, 2024
An exception to the rule
A few hundred yards from our home is a road sign telling drivers ‘no U-turns’. If someone does make a U-turn then confusion and...
Steve Richards
Nov 3, 2023
'Christianity' does not appear in the Bible
Did you know that the word Christianity does not appear in the Bible and Christian is there just three times? Early on, ‘Christian’ was a...
Steve Richards
Mar 3, 2023
Light dispels darkness
Due to the holiday period, I am having to write this article well in advance of publication. In fact, it is just a few days before 21st...
Steve Richards
Jan 6, 2023
A basis for confidence
Do you remember that scene in the film The Sound of Music? Maria is filled with doubts as she journeys towards the von Trapp home to take...
Steve Richards
Nov 4, 2022
A first-hand faith
If you are a person of faith, is it something you’ve inherited or has someone taken the trouble to introduce you to it? Either way, is...
Steve Richards
Oct 6, 2022
The message and the messenger
Billy Graham was a man who shared the Christian message with more people than anyone else during the 20th century. He tells the story of...
Steve Richards
Sep 1, 2022
Riches for the poor and weak
Some disdain religion by saying it just gives life meaningful (albeit naïve) structure for people who are largely poor and uneducated. At...
Steve Richards
May 6, 2022
A right understanding
Many of our young people will now be settling in to university life, some for the first time. In the 19th century, ‘higher criticism’ of...
Steve Richards
Sep 30, 2021
A closed book
Still standing on my bookshelf is a lovely pocket sized edition of the Bible (King James Version). Inside it, my grandmother had written...
Steve Richards
Sep 2, 2021