2026-02-24T08:14:09+00:00

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You are not alone. People ask "what is wrong with me?" when they are anxious, depressed, or weighed down with guilt or shame.  Sometimes a broken relationship is the trigger, or even personal trauma. It is often a cry of deep pain, and can prompt an existential crisis that causes us to question everything we think we know about human nature. Let me say this clearly at the outset: Suffering is real. Injustice is real. Harm is real.  There is a big difference between healthy guilt and destructive shame. And yet, there is another dimension to the question that is harder to face. Read more

2026-03-09T21:51:33+00:00

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The headlines of the story are well-known. A rebellious youth. Pressganged into the Royal Navy. Whipped after an attempted desertion. Swapped onto a ship on its way to pick up slaves. Enslaved, himself, in Africa. Rescued by a captain friend of his father’s only to almost die in a storm on the way home. So far from God that his fellow sailors thought that he, like Jonah, had brought the wrath of God down on them. His prayer in that... Read more

2026-02-16T09:34:50+00:00

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Shame is often a lie that speaks to us from deep inside Have you struggled with crippling shame? Do you constantly fear social rejection? Have you been cancelled by your community?  Do you lie awake at night wondering if you deserve to be outed as a fraud? Do you wonder if you are the worst sinner in the world and unforgivable? Read on, and I hope this article will be of some help to you. Before Christmas I had the... Read more

2026-02-13T15:04:34+00:00

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This video shows you how to use collections in Logos Bible Software. You can get your 2026 Library here: ⁠https://logos.sjv.io/VOaAgk⁠ ⁠I was kindly given a copy of one of the Preacher libraries by Logos so that I would review it, but I’m not constrained as to what kind of review I give. I confess that I so spend an awful lot of money of my own on Logos. If you want to contribute to my Logos addiction, please feel free to ⁠click on the affiliate link⁠ and you’ll give me a small contribution towards that. Read more

2026-02-13T12:01:07+00:00

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I’m not going to assume that you know anything about Logos, so I’ll start with something very simple. Let’s suppose you want to do a simple Bible study. You want to read the Bible, and you want to read a commentary. You can go to Layouts, click “Bible and Commentary,” and boom, up it comes. At the moment we’ve got the ESV version here, and we’ve got the Africa Bible Commentary there, but we can change that.... Read more

2026-02-12T15:28:44+00:00

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Here is a video in which I talk to you about the review version of the Logos Bible Software 2026 libraries, and show you how to approach choosing which libraries to buy and how to do this economically. Also available wherever you get your podcasts, on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Please like, subscribe and follow. I was kindly given a copy of one of the Preacher libraries by Logos so that I would review it, but I’m not constrained as... Read more

2026-01-27T22:12:17+00:00

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Seeing is not believing. Since the advent of deep fakes, particularly, we can't trust any videos we see online anymore. We can't trust anything we see with our eyes anymore. But we can’t trust what we hear either. Most of all we can’t trust what is inside of us. Read more

2026-01-24T20:02:45+00:00

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How do humans process information and make moral choices? Stephen said he left The Traitors UK with his moral compass intact. Was he right? This video looks at how humans make difficult choices, using The Traitors as moral theatre. Questions like this sit at the heart of my book The Traitor Within: Understanding and Healing Our Deceitful Heart. I can’t believe it. The Traitors UK Season 4 is over already! It felt like it came on us very quickly. But it’s been a great series, and I want to use it to illustrate something much deeper than reality TV: how we make decisions, how we process information, and how human beings deceive themselves without meaning to. What The Traitors gives us is a kind of moral theatre. It shows, in real time, how we sense, feel, think, reason, and finally choose. SPOILERS AHEAD Read more

2026-01-23T14:14:08+00:00

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I went to the seaside recently, and the sea was quote rough. I filmed a short video which is attached below, I have been posting to TikTok recently if you are over there come and find me! Behind me, the sea was fairly rough. I mean, the sea does get a lot rougher than this, but it was very windy. It wasn’t exactly a warm, sunny day. I was wearing my Tom Baker Doctor Who scarf, and a coat which... Read more

2026-01-19T10:03:47+00:00

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Jesus told us to remember the poor not go to war. Peace is perhaps the most expensive commodity in the world. Global defense spending for 2024 was $2.7 Trillion dollars and is going up by a whopping 10% a year. Imagine if you could take that 10% and do something else with it? Read more

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