We shouldn’t offer worship to the King which costs us nothing. But it’s important to say as well that our worship is not acceptable to him simply because it’s costly. 1st Corinthians 13 reminds us that if we give away all that we have, and we deliver up our bodies to be burned, but have not love, we gain nothing. […]

Whether we’re willing to pay the cost shows what we really think of God. That’s God’s own argument in Malachi chapter 1. He says: ‘Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favour?’ In other words, try and be so half-hearted as you serve your king – or as your serve your employer – and see […]

Sometimes it’s good when the doors of a church close. It’s right that we have a pang of regret when we see a church building where God was once worshipped turned into a restaurant or a pub or a carpet showroom. But if by the end the gospel wasn’t being preached in that church, then it’s better for it now […]