The Politics of Advent: Matthew and his Surprising Genealogy

Let’s begin with one of the most exciting parts of the nativity story- the genealogy. What? You don’t think genealogies are exciting? Well it may not be exciting reading, but as a prelude to the gospel, it has some interesting and important things to tell us. For us as people living in the era of […]

Old Testament; who cares?

At Westminster Reads we’ have read our way through the book of Hebrews and that has me thinking about how important understanding the Old Testament is if we want to really understand the New Testament. Sometimes Christians think of the Old Testament as unimportant or irrelevant or obsolete or worse still replaced even superseded by the New Testament. […]