We’ve been trying to build holy habits the past couple of days (here and here). But why? Let me give you four reasons to develop the holy habits of prayer, Bible reading, and meditation. 1. They become hard not to do What was once hard to do can become hard not to do. Once you…

I’ve been working through What did you expect? with a young couple. Although I was initially a bit disappointed, the book has grown on me and, I must say, chapter six on forgiveness was absolutely outstanding. I’ve never seen so much clear, concise and life-changing teaching on forgiveness in one chapter. Tripp begins by saying:…

Systematic and structured pre-marital counseling is not very common in the Scottish Highlands, where I was a pastor for 12 years. I usually spent one or two evenings with young couples wanting to be married, but it was not the done thing to get too personal and practical! I usually “risked” giving them Christian living…

The “hottest” response I’ve had to anything I’ve written on this blog came after I posted the text of an email I had written to a young Christian woman (name withheld), begging her to end her relationship with a non-Christian man. I posted some clarifications in the comments which seemed to stem the flow of…