Category: Daf’s Blog

John 15:13 Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. I was engaging in some serious theological reflection this morning on “X Men: Days of Future Past”. And it suddenly struck me that the film makes no sense! This is not simply because  I can’t work out why...

“Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him…” Mark 15:32 “We have avenged the prophet Muhammad.” That’s what the two brothers who carried out the terrorist atrocity in Paris this week shouted, having murdered 10 people at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. They felt the magazine’s cartoonists had insulted Islam. Whatever you believe...

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… I give my wife the dregs of my love. And like the bottom of the beer barrel, the dregs taste bitter. At the end of the long day at work I come into the kitchen and collapse with...

Romans 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. How can it be good news to be a slave? What is the blessing of belonging to someone else? The best answer I’ve heard...

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. This isn’t a suggestion on what to ask new church members when the coffers are running low, but rather the primary area of disagreement between me and the BBC reporter who interviewed me...

1 Corinthians 16:15 You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Yes ministry is hard, but I have not yet sought solace in illegal substances. Yes we’d love to have a bit more money to spend on gospel work...

James 1:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.  One thing about going into print is that people remember what you wrote. They even quote it...

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:55 My dad is dying in hospital. There you go. I said it. Which is something that the medical staff find very hard to do. So, last week, when it looked like he only had a few minutes to live, a young doctor...

John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” This is my new “2 ways 2 live” tract for Christian contentment. I am a great fan of Kung Fu Panda (1 & 2). I...

Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye No, I haven’t taken up recreational pot. Though the senior pastor of a London church did once tell me that, if they legalised cannabis, he wanted to be...