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My Upcoming Book -- OUT NOW

40 Days with The FaThers: Available to order now! 40 Days with The FaTher: a daily reading plan by Luke J. Wilson   The time has finally arrived: my new book is now available to order!I'm so excited to share this with you after many months of work, research and editing. I hope that you enjoy reading The book as much as I did writing it! Order your copy now from my new website: fortydays.co.uk to get it at a reduced rate. If you order today Then it should arrive just in time for Christmas!If you do enjoy it, don't forget to leave a review on Good Reads or on Amazon.Keep in touch and re...

Power Cuts and The Fear of God

The oTher week we had a series of power cuts in our town. It doesn’t happen very often here where I am, but There was particularly bad weaTher recently which damaged some cables; but sitting in The dark winter evening, my phone low on battery power, it made me realise just how much we rely on electricity for nearly everything These days. We don’t even have a gas supply so we were completely cut off from doing anything! Now it might sound obvious, but it’s easy to forget how dependent we are on modern conveniences until it’s suddenly taken away and you’re sat in The cold surrounded by tiny little tea-light candles. The following Sunday, The sermon at c...

The Gospel of Jeffrey Dahmer

There’s a new Netflix documentary out at The moment which has hit The news recently about The infamous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer. I haven’t watched it, but I knew of him as a serial killer though I didn’t realise just how horrific his crimes were until I read The Wikipedia article about him! Not for The faint of heart, that’s for sure. But this post isn’t really about Dahmer, not entirely, but raTher The reactions to some recent social media posts about him and The (often vitriol) responses They’ve got. Here’s one example: Dahmer is probably in heaven and experiencing eternal joy. If this boThers you, you don’t know The depths of your o...

The Coming of Jesus: The Olivet Discourse – Part 1

Hello again, it's been a while since I've wrote anything, and longer since getting back to this series on The Second Coming of Jesus. This isn't for lack of motivation, but raTher because this is such a huge topic that I've been reading and thinking about this next part for a very long time to make sure I know what I'm saying, and am well read enough to do The topic justice. Having said that, There will always be far more to say on this than I can give time for here, but I hope to give enough of an overview to expound this prophecy faithfully without being too technical as to cause confusion! You can also catch up on The previous parts...

The Coming Kingdom of The Son of Man

The importance of context of what's being said, and to whom, in Scripture. I came across this image The oTher day (in The header above; see larger here) that links togeTher three parts of MatThew’s Gospel to highlight The connection which many often miss, or read as separate events. I like The image because it shows that when Jesus spoke These things, he would have been saying Them directly to The disciples and oThers who were listening to his teaching, and not in some cryptic, ambiguous dictation to a prophetic scribe, devoid of all context and meaning to those around him at The time. Update Feb 2017: I am adding some additional information to this to dis...

Palm Sunday and The End Times

It’s not often we read The text of The triumphant entry into Jerusalem as an eschatological text thinking about The return of Christ. Especially as at this point The in The Gospel narratives, Jesus is on earth in his first coming, and still a week away from his crucifixion! While The texts usually read across The world on Palm Sunday may be familiar to us (Luke 19:28–40), we might miss The connection with The preceding parables if we don’t read The whole of Luke 19 togeTher. I won’t quote everything here, as you can read The whole text for yourself, but The pertinent verses come from The Parable of The Ten Minas in verses 11–27: Luke 19:11, 27As The...