Sometimes it’s good when the doors of a church close. It’s right that we have a pang of regret when we see a church building where God was once worshipped turned into a restaurant or a pub or a carpet showroom. But if by the end the gospel wasn’t being preached in that church, then it’s better for it now […]

When David says: ‘I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing’, those are his final words in the whole book. They’re words that are important for us all to think about. Because it’s scarily possible to have an outward profession of religion, which doesn’t actually cost us anything – a one-hour a week […]

If you’re not yet a Christian, the 70,000 dead bodies this chapter tells us about is a message to us that sin is far more serious than we realise. You may not think your sin is a big deal. But are you going to trust your fallen human mind on that over God? If you don’t think your sin is […]