Blog
Categories = ‘bible + church’
May 2022
30
Looking ahead
This was the pattern of Jesus’ ministry and I believe it should be the pattern of what we do, too: making, growing, sending disciples of Jesus.
Jun 2020
27
On behalf of
These people, this church - they are not mine, they are God’s.
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’
Mar 2019
12
‘Bring them here to me’
Jesus says, ‘My job is the feeding; your job is the bringing.’
Sep 2018
29
Whoever shouts loudest...
Do we know how to listen well? Do we know how to listen to God, and to those around us?
Apr 2018
3
Let the dead bury their own dead
How easy it is to let the cares and concerns of this world crowd out our faith.
Feb 2009
3
Calvin on Ceremony
Writing on John 4.20, Calvin writes that error lies in ‘the confusing of different ages’: Later generations devote themselves to the examples of the fathers, not thinking that a different law of actio..
Aug 2008
10
New prophecy?
We had an interesting comment by the preacher in church today. He was saying that whenever he preaches, he tries to have something fresh, something new and prophetic to say. Now I whole-heartedly agre..
May 2008
15
Christian freedom
I read this verse this morning: Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. 1 Peter 2.16 (ESV) The kind of freedom won for us in Christ i..
May 2008
10
Faith and works
I read James 2 this morning, the almost infamous passage which apparently contradicts Paul’s theology that we are saved only by faith, that there is nothing we can do to earn our salvation. I don’t th..