Dawkins is right etc
A friend has drawn my attention to two articles in the Daily Telegraph (my, you know you are getting old when you start to say `Amen’ at the end of articles in the DT). The first concerns Richard Dawkins, who…
Month February 2010
Dawkins is right etc
A friend has drawn my attention to two articles in the Daily Telegraph (my, you know you are getting old when you start to say `Amen’ at the end of articles in the DT). The first concerns Richard Dawkins, who…
MDB 40: I Cor 13
When Paul wrote about love in 1 Corinthians 13, he was not trying to give people something nice to read at weddings (although it is nice to read at weddings). Instead, he was trying desperately to show a church full of…
A God-Centered Approach to Dealing with Anxiety
A new resource from Ed Welch of CCEF: “When I Am Afraid” You know how anxiety and fear feels—your stomach drops, your neck tightens, your whole body tenses—but do you know what to do when anxiety fills your days and…
Well fancy that!
The Knights of St Columbus, a Catholic organisation, have just released the results of a survey of young Americans. The good news is that 85% of young Catholics believe in God, which, in terms of the proportion of reality to…
“These Last Days”
Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology Tenth Presbyterian Church, PhiladelphiaApril 30 – May 2, 2010 For many Christians, the last days refers to the short period of intense activity immediately prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. But according to…
MDB 39: Exodus 8
The plagues that God brought upon Egypt were designed to defeat the gods and goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon. For example, by turning the dust into bugs (Exod. 8:16-19), God was claiming his authority over the very soil of Egypt, and…
MDB 38: Luke 10
The plenty of the harvest is inversely proportional to the number of harvesters. “The laborers are few,” Jesus said (Luke 10:2). Not many people are willing to do the hard labor of the gospel: sowing seeds of salvation by sharing the…
LACK of Doctrine Divides
Great post from Tim Challies… Aileen and I were once members of a church that, after a few years of existence, began to de-emphasize doctrine. Some of the pastors seemed to reach the conclusion that “doctrine divides” and that the…
A Layman’s Historical Guide to the Inerrancy Debate
Both the broader Evangelical church in general and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in particular are currently embroiled in debates over the authority of Scripture as the Word of God. Because the term “inerrancy” has been prominent in these discussions,…