Five reasons why you don’t need to get freaked out by the Bible
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 Posted in Books, Theology, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »I always get freaked out by the Bible. It's so much easier to pick up a novel or a magazine. But whenever I do, the Bible sits there on my shelf, shouting, "Hey! You should be reading ME! What kind ...
Getting stupid to get away from God
Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted in Books, Theology | No Comments »A couple of weeks ago Ben showed us that hard-heartedness makes you stupid, using a less-than-clever quote from Richard Dawkins. Hard-heartedness is one of the ways the Bible talks about sin, and there are lots of others - idoatory, rebellion, ...
The forgotten day of Easter: Maundy Thursday
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Church, Theology | No Comments »Today is Maundy Thursday. It doesn't often get a guernsey in the Easter celebrations of a lot of our evangelical churches. But we can't properly understand what happened on Good Friday without the events of Maundy Thursday. The day before Jesus ...
he ran
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Theology | 2 Comments »On Thursday mornings I get to help out with a Bible study group for people who are learning English. They come to practice their English, but also to learn about Jesus and western culture. We’re going through a series of ...
Living in Christ
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in Theology | No Comments »An open letter from Adrian Mikula. Hey everyone, I just wanted to encourage you from a great Bible study I had a couple of weeks ago on Ephesians 1:1-14. As God is challenging me, so I would like to challenge you! God has ...
Some thoughts on Jonah and History
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Theology | 11 Comments »At church on Sunday night issue of Jonah and history came up. In what was not my finest ever question time, I stumbled out a pretty poor answer. In part of it I indicated my opinion that Jonah might be ...
Bible Software #1
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Books, Miscellaneous, Theology | No Comments »I've recently had conversations with several people discussing the merits of different bible software, and perhaps it would be useful to commit some of these thoughts to paper. Over a series of posts I will compare some of the options ...
Is heaven a warehouse?
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Books, Theology | No Comments »I'm still chewing over stuff after reading The Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright (see some of my previous posts). In Wright's opinion—which I suspect is correct—many Christians have unthinkingly accepted our culture's hope of dying and ...
Spiritual Bodies?
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Theology | 2 Comments »Have you ever wondered what Paul means when he writes about our future ‘spiritual bodies’ in 1 Corinthians 15:43–44? In context Paul is dealing with some in the Corinthian church who are ridiculing the idea of a future resurrection by asking, ...
Pro-missionary atheist
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Theology | No Comments »From Rory: Found this nice little article in The Times from an atheist who is a keen supporter of missionary evangelism in African because of the change it brings to people's lives. Can be found here.
