Cut down to size
Daniel 4 tells of another dream that Nebuchadnezzar experiences -this time of a tall, strong, beautiful, abundant tree that is cut down to the stump. He wants everyone to know what happened, everyone to...
Monthly Archive: November 2016
Don’t praise me, praise my God
So yesterday I shared about some of our struggles as a family right now and we received lots of messages of encouragement and support, which were really lovely, so thank you, all of you....
Sharing our struggles
Sometimes we go to church whether we feel like it or not. When our world is crumbling all around us and we hear how God is God and God is good and God changes...
It’s time for a new song
Let’s start with this point about seemingly unanswered prayer from the last blogpost today and dig a little deeper – So as churches, we don’t know what to do with this and we look...
God is God, whatever the outcome
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Daniel 3:1 This is the start...
In the world but not of the world
The Israelites were defeated. They were being occupied by the Babylonians. Their land was under the control of a foreign leader and some of the brightest and best of their young people had been...
Engaging with our culture
Yesterday, we saw how in Daniel 2, Daniel acted as a channel of God’s wisdom and power by recounting and interpreting King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream for him. In Stretch, the book I’m reading at the...
It’s all about how you react
In Chapter 2 of the Book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar has a disturbing dream. Fortunately for him, he is surrounded by wise men more than willing to interpret his dream for him. So the...
Feeling like you don’t fit…
When we were decluttering our bedroom a month or so ago, I came across a book that I’d bought at Spring Harvest years ago and never read. It was about the book of Daniel...
Introducing the man who needs no introduction…
Daniel. Everyone’s heard of Daniel. He’s the hero of Sunday School tales and the man behind the phrase ‘Dare to be a Daniel’. But now we come across Daniel in context as part of...
