I just want to say hello to everyone checking out my new WordPress site ‘Insights from the Bible.’ 
During the last six years I have shared 60 blogs on my ‘Inspire2Achieve’ site which shares certain thoughts in the context of the coaching process. I have also attached various spiritual insights to them. It has been quite a journey which has resulted in the publishing of my first book Blog 51 that contains 51 blogs within ten themes and has been very well received and appreciated.
In my daily devotions I often refer to the Every Day with Jesus notes and during the month of August the study was based around the book of Ecclesiastes. The contents of the Old Testament book can be quite hard going but there are lots of sayings, from the preacher Solomon, which can be applied to our present everyday living as a Christian.
The theme of the notes was about living under the sun, as found in Ecclesiastes 8: 7 ‘No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun.’ Life is both a challenge and a delight and we can move from one to another quite easily in a day or over an extended period of time. As a person of faith the task before us is to devote ourselves each day to the will and purposes of God, knowing as the apostle Paul shared in Romans 8 v 28 ‘that all things work together for good to them that love God.’
My theological and pastoral training took place initially at Emmanuel Bible College Birkenhead and then was enlarged by completing a Theology and Religious studies degree at Manchester University. In all my studies I have tried to listen to instruction. Sought to understand the essay and module tasks asked to complete and then apply in a teaching and pastoral context the mysteries and wonders of faith as found in scripture and church tradition.
I remember the words of the minor prophet Habakkuk many years ago encouraging me to ‘write down’ understandings, which I saw in faith and to make them ‘plain’ (chapter 2 v 2) so that they would inspire my faith and ministry to my family, church and all I serve in community.
In the last chapter of Ecclesiastes 12 v 9 – 11 we read that the writer in his wisdom used words to ‘spur and prod’ readers to a greater love of God and a life of increased faith and devotion.
It is my intention that through sharing my personal ‘insights from the bible’ my own faith and devotion is prodded and strengthened.
I also hope and pray that such insights may bring a relevance for faith today, in an increasing world where belief in God is being ignored but where many are enthusiastically considering afresh a personal faith for today, as experienced in Jesus’s day and in the life of the church over many centuries.
Enjoy Graham
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