Category: Education

Calling and the Impact of Eternity

[Posted on: 23 June 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Calling and the Impact of Eternity

In this video and article, Richard looks at questions about calling, and discusses the following two aspects of the subject:

1. How does eternity affect our view on our calling? Some callings (e.g. that of a parent) have eternal consequences, whereas others (e.g. a job) may only be temporal.
2. Some callings may be consequence of factors that have been pre-assigned to us and are beyond our choosing (e.g. our parents or gender). We need to learn to be content with those things that we cannot change.

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Causes of Death – Worldwide

[Posted on: 16 June 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Causes of Death – Worldwide

In this video, Richard looks at an article from the Christian press, which is suggesting that in 2023, the number of abortions exceeded that of any other cause of death worldwide. The figures check out well, being comparable with those from the World Health Organisation. This must surely cause us to think seriously, particularly as our society today considers itself to be morally superior to the way it was in the past. Having said this however, we all need to take heed that we do not become self-righteous and judgemental.

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Protected Characteristics

[Posted on: 10 June 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Protected Characteristics (2010 Legislation)

In this video and article, Richard discusses the Protected Characteristics legislation of 2010, which sought to deal with issues of equality and discrimination. The suggestion is made that this was too general in its application, without dealing in enough detail with the detailed issues concerning each individual characteristic.

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Ancient Paths

[Posted on: 29 April 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Ancient Paths

In this video and article, Richard talks about a word given to him in conversation a few years ago. In Jeremiah 6:16 we read: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” (ESV).

In seeking after new ways and ideas, the Church has lost a lot by way of good traditions that existed from the time of the Refoormation up until the 20th Century. Just as the Reformation itself was something of a return to ancient paths in the reinstatement of Biblical teaching and thinking, so likewise today, we are in very great need something of a new Reformation and a return to the ancient paths.

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Trust and Obey

[Posted on: 03 April 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Trust and Obey

This video and article are based on a talk given by Richard to Year 11 leavers in 2021 about the challenge of becoming adults. Inspiration is taken from the old hymn Trust and Obey.

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Science and Miracles

[Posted on: 24 March 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Science and Miracles

In this video and article, Richard talks about the implication of scientific method in relation to the supernatural. It is totally reasonable that observable things should be interpreted in terms of science and natural causes wherever possible. This does not however rule out the fact that other things such as creation, the Flood and modern miracles cannot reasonably be explained by science and must be attributed to the divine work of God.

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Creation, Fall & Redemption Questions

[Posted on: 21 March 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Creation, Fall & Redemption Questions

This post is linked to the same article as the earlier post God as Lord of History and Geography, but the video takes a different approach. Richard here asks questions as to how we might look at God’s purposes in history, in relation to both His original plans in creation and the working out of His redemptive plan for mankind.

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Teaching What and How

[Posted on: 20 March 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Teaching What and How

In this video and article, Richard shares some thoughts on his career as a teacher. Whilst teaching, like many other professions, has become stressful these days with increasing demands, we perhaps need to come back to basics by concentrating on being a teacher of good things rather than a good teacher of things.

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God as Lord of History and Geography

[Posted on: 24 February 2025 by Richard Worsley]

God as Lord of History and Geography

In this video, Richard introduces an article of his own in which he talks about the way that history has been shaped by the geography of the world, and how in more recent times, events have been further shaped by advances in industrialisation and technology. We need to take note that God remains Lord of all things, and even though mankind has the ability to destroy the world through nuclear weapons and to control society through advanced technology, we perhaps need to consider that God is possibly beginning to wind up history prior to His return.

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Teaching Humanities

[Posted on: 20 February 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Teaching Humanities

In this video and article, Richard reflects on something of his own experience of teching history and geography over a period of 20 years. He talks about some of the challenges brought by these two disciplines and also how they support the authority of the Bible.

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