The Alpha Course has been the world’s most popular evangelistic course of the last 30 years or so.  At last count, approximately 28 million people had attended one, in every kind of church, right across the globe.  Its opening session poses the provocative question: ‘Christianity: boring, untrue, irrelevant?’ The answer lies in the famous verse … Read more

Many people who would never go near a church will be familiar with this passage – it is a much-loved choice for funerals, and you can see why.  In a few short verses, Jesus packs in so many wonderful promises: first, a word of comfort to all who feel in distress – as the disciples … Read more

Today we get to the famous conversation between Jesus and Peter – it’s one that touches most of us deeply, not least because we all know how easy it is to do: to make a bold promise in the heat of the moment, which we can’t deliver on when it really matters. There’ll be plenty … Read more

‘Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.’  So says Jean Valjean on his deathbed to Marius and Cosette, in Victor Hugo’s great novel Les Miserables.  It’s a clear re-enactment of this scene in the gospels, as the hero, facing his own death, passes a … Read more