Westy's Weekly Blog

  I wonder whether accountants have a special love for the Bible.   Why do I ask that?   Well, because there are lots and lots of numbers in the Bible.   There’s even a Bible book with that title. The fourth book of the Bible is the book, Numbers.   Amongst other things that book gives us lots of numbers for a census of the people of Israel, tribe by tribe.   That census was conducted just after the Israelites left Egypt.   And then it also gives all the figures for a second census, conducted at the end of their journey as they are about the cross the Jordan River. I once had a Christian work colleague who had become obsessed by the numbers in the Bible.   He was into what is sometimes called Numerology.   He would take numbers from a certain text in the Bible, add them to other numbers, or perhaps multiply them, and then use the result to support some unusual claim he would make about the Bible and especially about bible prophecy.   N...

I wonder if you are happy and contented with your life.   I know that many people are not.   Sadly, there are times when people are so unhappy with their life that they no longer see a way out.   Too many people reach that depth of despair where they then take their own life.   The tragedy is that it doesn’t need to end that way.   There is hope... always... and many people have experienced that.   They have come back from the brink. The Bible offers despairing people the hope of new life through faith in Jesus Christ.   The Bible pictures that in terms of quite a radical change.   The apostle Paul spoke of it as someone being a new person... that the old had gone and the new had come.   I recall reading the story of s a dramatic example of such a change.   Let me share the story with you. It was this month 28 years ago that Karla Faye Tucker died.   But she didn’t die taking her own life – although she perhaps had good reason t...

If you ever doubt God’s willingness or ability to forgive and restore you when you’ve pathetically failed, just read your Bible a little more carefully.   Sure, God expects us to live upright and moral lives.   We are supposed to be people of integrity, reliability and love.   But the Bible is also brutally honest when it tells us that we do fail… that if we say we’ve not sinned we lie and the truth is not in us.   So when you’ve failed badly how certain are you of God’s forgiveness and restoration? Perhaps you readily accept that God converts even the hardest sinners, forgives them and brings them into relationship with Himself.   Examples..?   Well, for starters there’s the thief on the cross who asked Jesus to remember him when He came into His Kingdom.   And what does Jesus say?   “Today you’ll be with me in Paradise!”   Words spoken to a man being executed for his crimes against God and humanity… to a man who had not been baptised… who...