A simple look at Job 39, the Hebrew word re’em, and the so-called Siberian unicorn.
For readers who want to be Bible Strong.
Open the King James Bible and you will find the word unicorn. It turns up in Job. It turns up in the Psalms. It is there in Numbers and Deuteronomy as well.
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Rosh Hashanah – The Feast of Trumpets
Hello folks!
This weekend we come to the Feast of Trumpets—what our Jewish friends call Rosh Hashanah. “Rosh” means head, so it is the head of the year, the Jewish New Year 5787. It begins at sunset on Friday, 11th September 2026, and continues until nightfall on Sunday, 13th September.
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The land still belongs to the Lord ~ standing with Israel in the Word, not with every policy in Tel Aviv
Now folks, I want us to look at something that has been troubling many of the Lord’s people this week. And I want us to look at it the way we always try to look at things here, not first through the newspaper, but through the Word of God.
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2 Kings 10:27 (NKJV)
A little picture in the Word
You know, sometimes the Lord puts a little picture in the Word that sticks with you as you read through it, and I want to share this little morsel of Scripture with you.
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Read more: Made It a Refuse Dump – Killing Idolatry Completely
God Is Bigger Than Our Systems
A Simple Look at Predestination, Election, and the Open Invitation
You know, a lot of us have sat under a message that just stirred our hearts to share the gospel more boldly. A study in Acts 18 can do that. Jesus said to Paul, don’t be afraid, keep on speaking, because I have many people in this city. That kind of encouragement is good. We need it. Don’t let fear shut your mouth.
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A word for the one whose world has just fallen in
The phone rings. The police are at the door. The hospital calls in the night. Someone you love is gone.
And it feels like the ground has given way.
If that is where you are, this is for you. I am not here to tidy it up. I am not here to give you a speech. I just want to sit with you and open the Word of God.
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Answering a Popular New Argument with All of Scripture
A video by the late Dr Alan Cairns first pushed me to write on this. In March 2025 I set down a short answer: can a woman be a pastor in the New Testament church? Biblically, no. That is still my stand. This piece is the longer follow-up, because a new kind of argument is doing the rounds, and it sounds careful, humble, and Bible-loving and people are falling for it.
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When the Mountains Are Carried into the Midst of the Sea
A call to prayer for Nepal
I walk the hills of Scotland and think of Nepal. This week the Himalayan wall that draws a walker’s heart has been in the news for a far heavier reason.
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Read more: When the Mountains Are Carried into the Midst of the Sea
Well, folks, Dolly Parton went home just the other day, on Tuesday, the 25th of August 2026. She was eighty years old. A lot of us grew up with her songs in the house; some were just country songs, you know. But some were hymns and gospel songs that pointed people to Jesus. And the Lord used even that.
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Read more: In Memory of Dolly Parton - A Word of Kindness for Her Family
The City of the Patriarchs - and the Sabbath They Were Murdered
Remembering the 1929 massacre in the light of God’s unfailing covenant.
Folks, this week we remember a dark day in a very holy place.
On the 23rd and 24th of August, 1929- that was the 17th and 18th of Av on the Jewish calendar- a mob rose up in Hebron and murdered sixty-seven Jews. Men. Women. Little children. They were killed in their homes, on the Sabbath, in the city where Abraham bought a burial cave for Sarah.
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Read more: A look at Hebron - The City of the Patriarchs - and the Sabbath They Were Murdered
A simple call to real, Bible-centred Christian living
You know, there’s a question every one of us who follows Jesus has to face at some point:
Do I truly love the Lord?
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