Andy and Helen’s Journey Through The Bible in Five and Half Years
The first half of the Book of Daniel contains the action; the second recounts some of the dreams and visions Daniel has had over his lifetime. These dreams and visions are apocalytic. Apocalyptic literature is...
In the last post, we learnt how this decree had come to pass. This decree that no one should pray to anyone else except the king. And what is Daniel’s response? He just carries...
Daniel in the den of lions. Such a familiar story! But before we jump to that den with those lions, let’s take our time and work our way slowly through Daniel 6, because there’s...
Did you pick up on this expression from the story in Daniel 5? This story is actually the origin of this widely used idiom. In this account, the writing on the wall is a...
But you did not honour the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. Daniel 5:24 Daniel here is speaking to King Belshazzar who desecrated the silver and gold goblets...
In Daniel 4, we see one king, King Nebuchadnezzar being ‘cut down to size’ by the one true God, the God of Daniel and the exiles. This king responds by recognising his place before...
Daniel 4 tells of another dream that Nebuchadnezzar experiences -this time of a tall, strong, beautiful, abundant tree that is cut down to the stump. He wants everyone to know what happened, everyone to...
So yesterday I shared about some of our struggles as a family right now and we received lots of messages of encouragement and support, which were really lovely, so thank you, all of you....
Sometimes we go to church whether we feel like it or not. When our world is crumbling all around us and we hear how God is God and God is good and God changes...
Let’s start with this point about seemingly unanswered prayer from the last blogpost today and dig a little deeper – So as churches, we don’t know what to do with this and we look...
