While we may be devoted to the teaching of Scripture, does the same hold true for our public reading of it? And, if so, what would the evidence of that be? What tangible realities would abundantly display our love and passion for hearing Scripture read out loud?
I suspect the title has already polarised you - or at least evoked something of a gut response for you. The issues of creation and science tend to do that for people! But this is not a discussion about science and creation, or (oddly) historicity.
In this article, I’d like to think through the different, albeit related, realities of ‘heaven’ and the ‘new creation’. I want to whet your appetite to discover more of our present and future reality. I’d like to help you to see this is an essential pillar in any theological framework.
Learning to pray for others is one of the first things we learn as Christians: we see it commended on every other page of the New Testament; we see it modelled in every other meeting of Christians; and Christian parents model it to their children from birth.
This apologetic book by Keller was a phenomenon. Its wisdom for thinking about apologetics, doubt, and evidence for the Christian faith make it a 'must-read' for the Christian. But it does have some weaknesses, which we also outline here.
Anyone who knows me knows that, in God’s manifold grace, I’m very much on the ‘church waterer’ end of things, rather than on the church planter end! So please forgive me for dipping a toe into something I don’t know too much about.
I’ve noticed in recent years that, although we can make good and well-intentioned ministry decisions, when combined with other good ministry decisions, these decisions produce a poisonous gas that threatens the wellbeing of our churches.
‘The secret things belong to the Lord’: what would you do if you knew the future? If it were bad, would we submit to it? What if we discover that it fits our own desires? Would we take it into our own hands, and view ourselves as makers of our own destiny?
A review of two books on a Christian approach to 'culture', the first by Moore, and the second by D A Carson. In different ways both books take their starting-point from Niebhur's 'Christ and Culture', which has shaped conversation for over half a century.
This is a review essay exploring the nature of prayer, with books by Jensen & Payne, Packer & Nystrom, and Yancey as conversation partners. What is prayer? What is the context of prayer? And does prayer make a difference?
