by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 18, 2018 | Spirit
The Third Commandment is: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. The Old Testament contains ten names for God. This commandment refers to the ultimate Name as given to Moses in...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 18, 2018 | Spirit
The Second Commandment is: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 18, 2018 | Spirit
The majority of the Ten Commandments can be summed up by just one sentence: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Even so, there are some unhelpful translations and errors that lead to misinterpretations of quite a few of them — commandment number six,...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 6, 2018 | Spirit
This is part of a series of blogs about my appearance on Britain’s Got Talent. I wrote it first on my Life of Miracles blog and you can read the full story here. Today’s excerpt is about the real reason I was there. It was not to become a celebrity! ...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 5, 2018 | Spirit
The plumber came round on a Tuesday morning wearing a navy blue baseball cap with an image of a mountain and the word Wisdom on it. It really floated my boat to think that you could walk around with “wisdom” on your head so I had to find out how to get one. The answer...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Mar 31, 2018 | Spirit
Many years ago, my friend Rachel who’s a Greek/Theology scholar amongst many other wonderful things said this: “It’s not the crucifixion and the suffering that are the key, it’s the death. Once you agree to die then resurrection is a done...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Mar 31, 2018 | Spirit
If anyone asks me what I’m doing on Holy Saturday, I always say that I’m spending the day dead. It’s a very peaceful feeling. The point is that this is a day of contemplation; Good Friday is over and Easter Sunday still to come. And I contemplate the...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Mar 30, 2018 | Spirit
One of the great theological debates about the New Testament is ‘why four gospels?’ We know that many more were written, including the famous Nag Hammadi scripts. These were Gnostic gospels which had a very different ‘take’ on the world – believing in the idea of...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Mar 29, 2018 | Spirit
Today is Maundy Thursday, the day when Jesus would have come before Pilate and been condemned to die on the cross. You’ll know the story; Judas left the last supper early (and maybe avoided paying—he was such a bad man!) and went to tell the priests and elders...
by Lion | Mar 28, 2018 | Spirit
On the day Professor Stephen Hawking died, Australian artist Mitchell Toy published an image of him standing in the stars. I thought it beautiful and posted it on social media, as did many others. Fast and furiously came accusations of weak Christianity, spiritual...
