Given the furore surrounding the issue of sanctification, I want to take the debate out of the lecture theatre and the partisan point scoring by asking a pointedly practical question: How do you pastor people engaged in serious repeated sin? That is where our theology is truly tested and where the...

The latest MoS is now up. This week, the team interview attorney, Melanie Brunson, who is in the studio along with her delightful dog, Sparta. Melanie is also blind and thus we have the opportunity to talk about the church's attitude to disability and the things of which pastors and people should...

Over at the Gospel Coalition, one of their pre-eminentspeakers and bloggers, Tullian Tchividjian, has used his platform to indict modern preachers for false teaching on law and gospel. No specifics are given beyond his general claim thatlots of preachers and writers out there are committing that...

Some time ago, I wrote a short article entitled 'What Can Miserable Christians Sing?' Over subsequent years, I have had a lot of friendly correspondence as a result of that piece and it has been reprinted in numerous church newsletters and posted on various websites. Then, earlier this year...