Roger's Blog on being a good man.

Since October 2023More than 2,500 Israelis have been killed andMore than 61,000 Palestinians (including at least 18,000 children) dead!Gentlemen,This conflict is not going away quickly. It is not about religion or race, but about land — the very land where Jesus once walked and taught.I once had a client who in the 1940s had served as a British policeman in Palestine. He told me about his firefigh...

 There are real serious health risks from using cannabis (NHS).  However, cannabis-based medicine should be easily available on a controlled prescription basis. Recreational use should remain illegal. But people caught with small quantities of non-prescribed cannabis for their own use, should be regarded as self-harming and offered treatment not prosecution.  Outside of the pharmacy sector, the pe...

In the Bible are many letters written by Paul, a leader or apostle in the early Church. They were recognised as Divinely inspired and included with other authors’ work to form the New Testament. This had the same authority as the ancient Jewish scriptures.In his letters Paul discussed the freedom from compulsion to do wrong or to sin that a follower of Jesus can and should have.To the church in Ro...

In my previous blog, I looked at Jesus’s statement that committing adultery need not include physical contact. He said that simply looking and lusting after a woman is the same as actually taking part in adultery.His teaching is very appropriate today as it is so easy to access ultra-high-definition pornography that encourages this type of adultery. There is no difference between a married man loo...

As discussed in my previous blog, adultery is always totally wrong.In Matthew 5, Jesus expanded the definition of adultery when He said: 27 ‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.”  28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.’ However, the overwhelming majority of us are attracted to look at women. God...

The Wedding Register,  Edmund Leighton 1920 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."  - I Corinthians 13.4-7True love...

In Proverbs 18:22 it is written:  He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favour from the Lord.Happily married men tend to live longer than single men and have a reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer. They also have a lower risk of depression and anxiety with lower feelings of loneliness. In short, they are happier and healthier. No argument ...

In the second chapter of Genesis, the creation story is given a slightly different spin to that in the first. In this second account God first made the man, Adam, and then the woman Eve, as a helper for Adam.But for Adam[f no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place wit...

Haven’t you read, ---- that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female?  Matthew 19:4The full text that Jesus was quoting from is;God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27It’s immaterial whether we think Genesis accurately describes an historical chain of events or is a parable or is somewhere in between. Je...