Recent content by EricPH

The first 40 years of marriage are the hardest, then it gets tougher. Nothing prepares you for the struggles you will face. Put God first, your spouse next and yourself last. In the UK, when a child reached 15, about half of them are not with both their biological parents.

I don't know, is the honest answer. We can only try and do what is right ourselves. Did Jesus only die for Christians, whose only sins might be for some minor misdemeanours? If any of us achieve salvation, it will not be because we have earned it through our own efforts, it will be because of...

Whatever people might say about Muslims, they pray five times a day. They take fasting seriously, giving to charity, modesty and the family are important.

We are given all the law and the commandments to say what we should and should not do. We have the freedom to obey God's laws. But if we obey God's laws, this limits our freedom; we can only do anything that is legal. We are given the greatest commandments to love God and neighbour. These are...

Could God the Father love each and everyone of us as he loves himself? Jesus died for us, does that mean he loves us as he loves himself?

In 2011 I had a biopsy for cancer, about a month later the doctor phoned and said he urgently wanted to see me, I had non – Hodgkin Lymphoma. This was a name I recognised, our friend had this cancer, and died a few months later. Being told I had cancer was out of my hands, there was nothing I...

I take the first sentence in the Bible to be an absolute and unquestionable truth. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. Can I prove it - No. The rest of the Bible hangs on this one truth. If God can create life from no life, then every other miracle like raising the dead...

I was going to post this in the introduction, but saw this thread. In 1970 My mum suffered from the onset of multiple sclerosis, gradually loosing the use of both legs, then both hands. There were times she wanted to die, she even asked us to help her die, this was something we were just not...