Speaking our language
"How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?" Habakkuk 1.2 Habakkuk was a contemporary of Jeremiah and therefore lived...
Interpreting history
"... this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel..." Acts 2. 16 Pentecost reminds us that the events of the Bible - and indeed of history...
A new perspective
"The LORD does not look at the things people look at." 1 Samuel 16.7 Looking down from Sgurr nan Gillean at the end of our Cuillin...
Going up
"The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. " Habakkuk 3.19 The...
Judgment and justice
"Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your...
Can a leopard change its spots?
"Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!" Nahum 3.1 it seems that Jonah's impact on Nineveh,...
New exodus
“As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.” Exodus 7.15 For all the doom and gloom, warning and...
Perfect peace
"Everyone will sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the LORD Almighty has...
Social conscience
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.......
The long view
"Tell it not in Gath..." Micah 1.10 There exists confusion as to the succession of the kings of Israel and Judah during the 7th and 8th...
