Category: Starting Out

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...

Today is 1 November. All Saints Day. All Saints Day is a Christian festival celebrated in honour of all the saints celebrated annually on 1 November by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the...

Ezekiel is living amongst the exiles by the River Kebar. The Kebar River was the Babylonian ‘grand canal’ and it was surrounded by plains. The kind of plains that see incredible storms by the...

We’re living in a dark place. Exile. It could be anywhere. Exile is not a geographical location. Any place where you don’t belong, that’s exile. I know it could be worse, you don’t have...

Lamentations. Not a word we really use in the Western world today. Lamentations: noun 1. acts of lamenting or expressing grief. 2. Lamentations, (used with a singular verb) a book of the Bible, traditionally...

Chapter 6 has always been my favourite chapter in the Book of Isaiah. I always grew up with a strong sense of my own unworthiness. I was brought up in a church environment that...

Now this is daunting. Really daunting. The Book of Isaiah in one month. 66 chapters in 31 days. Really heavy, meaty content all about politics and religion – two of my least favourite subjects!...

The song of all songs. The greatest of all songs. The most beautiful of all love songs. This song would be number one in one of those Top 50 Best Love Songs Ever countdowns on...

‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’ What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains...

Meet the teacher. The one whose words are recorded in the Book of Ecclesiastes. The words of the Teacher, son of David, king of Jerusalem…   Ecclesiastes 1:1 I, the Teacher, was king over...