It is important to pause and observe that nowhere in the New Testament are Christians ever described as disciples of a fellow believer. Throughout the Gospels and Acts, ‘disciple’ is used as a term for believers exclusively with relation to Jesus.
Reformed evangelicals are known as being devoted to Scripture: teaching it, preaching it ... but what about the public reading of it?
What is heaven? Or should we also ask: Where is heaven?; When is heaven?; and - better - Who is heaven?
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?
