Blog
Categories = ‘quotations + 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.
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.
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...
Aug 2018
21
Prayer is like garbage
Garbage is a sign of provision. Potato peelings, apple cores, and squash seeds are silent witnesses that our Father is still feeding us.
May 2018
30
Doubt and Scripture
Without doubt we are wrong and would remain wrong in many of our convictions - we need to learn to sit humbly under the authority of the Bible.
Apr 2009
17
Unscientific Questions
I watched an excellent programme on BBC One last night, called the Narnia Code. One of the points of the documentary was that CS Lewis preferred a medieval understanding of the universe to the modern ..
Mar 2008
7
Evangelical humility
Evangelicals need to approach their theological formulae with more humility than in the past. It is the scriptural word that is infallible, not our ever imperfect attempts to restate it in appropriate..
Jan 2008
24
Predestination and responsibility
Matthew 18.7 says this: ‘Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!’ We have here an example of how difficult ..