One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.