The Author

My whole life (I have just turned 60) has been lived in the environment of the evangelical Christian faith. I made my own choice to become a disciple of Jesus while at university in the UK. I have spent most of the past 30 years in Finland where I am now one of the leaders of a Finnish local church.

I love to study and write and teach. At university I got a doctorate in nuclear physics, so I am not a professional theologian, but I am fascinated by the discoveries of science. I have stacks of articles on subjects as varied as cosmology, archaeology, addictions and health food. I work for a company in Finland.

Just over ten years ago my life took a whole new turn when for the first time I really seriously questioned all that I had believed up till that time. This painful process of questioning and spiritual darkness took seven years. I have reemerged with a renewed faith in God, but I am no longer so sure about some of the things I was so confident about in the past. I am more ready to question and to listen to alternatives. This has set me free to seek out the Jewish roots of the Christian faith even if this is not the tradition I grew up in.

This was strengthened when a few years ago I discovered that my roots on my paternal grandfather’s side go back to Sephardic Jews who fled the Inquisition in Portugal and moved to London. Perhaps this explains why when I hear prayers in Hebrew, tears often come to my eyes, even if I don’t understand what is said.

I have several binders of writings in my room and I started to feel I should make them available to whoever might benefit from them. This idea was strengthened when a visitor who knew nothing of this idea prophesied to me that she saw me in my room surrounded by sermons and that I should preach them.

The design for the front page of this website got its inspiration from a prophecy I was given in 2007 in Israel that “wise men follow the Star of David”. I firmly believe that we need to understand the role of Israel in God’s purpose if we are to be wise in our understanding of Scripture. This Star throws light on the pages of the Bible.

The same design has been used on the cover of my first book. This has been published in Finnish in July 2010 and is called Messiaan Paluu (Return of the Messiah). It is available through Päivä Oy. In this book I introduce my readers to the Bible's teaching on the second coming of Jesus but from the perspective of how the writers of the New Testament and the early church fathers would have understood it. I show that some of the ideas that are popular today are in conflict with what people with Jewish roots would have understood i.e. that Christians are going to escape hard times. The church was always a suffering church and will remain so until the end. Its victory was despite suffering not through escaping it.

Thanks for sharing the adventure of seeking to understand truth with me. May the Holy Spirit of Truth guide you as I also seek for Him to guide me.

Graham Turner
September 2010