Blog
Category = ‘theology’
Oct 2021
16
Through the microscope
You look down your critical microscope at the New Testament, and you find God is looking back at you and declaring you to be a sinner.
Sep 2021
23
Work yourself happy
God created human beings to work - and to rest. How can we do both well?
Apr 2020
20
Sovereignty / Free will
Is it fair that Pharaoh is punished, if it is God who is making him stubborn?
Mar 2020
20
Freedom vs Licence
Without self-restraint, without the capacity to defer the gratification of instinct, and without the habits of heart and deed that we call virtues, we will eventually lose our freedom.
Mar 2020
8
What it is fixed upon
The most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.
Aug 2019
15
‘What in God’s name is happening in Christianity?’
‘We now learn who God is from singing praise songs rather than the teachings of the Word’
Jun 2019
30
New Grace vs Old Law?
The NT does not proclaim grace where the OT proclaimed law, since God’s calling his people into healthy patterns of living was always his gracious gift.
Jun 2019
22
Judgement, Inc.
Judgement is no longer on the basis of being part of the ethnic Jewish people of God...
Mar 2019
11
It’s (not) the end of the world...
Jesus has warned us in advance, so we know what is to come, to keep our faith firm in the only one who can carry us safely to the end.
Sep 2018
12
Give to Caesar...
When Jesus says, ‘Give back to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God’s,’ is there anything more going on than a clever answer?