Andy Burrows

Advent has a dual purpose. The obvious part is remembering how the prophets, and the Jews, looked forward and anticipated the coming of the Messiah. And Jesus was the one they were anticipating. The other part is recognizing that as…

  You will probably hear the first chapter of John’s gospel read out if you go to church at some point over the Christmas period. It’s another passage that emphasizes the fact that Jesus is God, the eternal Son of…

It’s clear from the verses we’ve skimmed through over the last two weeks that Jesus was no ordinary man. Yes, he was born in humility, to come alongside us, and in that sense he was a human being, just like…

“… when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are…

“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a…

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) There are two contrasts in this verse: – Sin pays wages, God gives a free gift – Death…

  The birth of Jesus would have been worth nothing to the human race without his death. It was the death of the Son of God that took away our sin, and therefore took away God’s wrath and the expectation…

Unpopular as it may be to say this in the pluralistic culture of our day, there is only one true God. The eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing, perfectly wise, perfectly good, God that Christians believe in, could not co-exist with another independent…