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Christmas is a time when we remember our childhood. We nostalgically return to our childhood homes in memory at this season. In what home do you have your fondest memories of Christmas? Some of us stayed in the same home all our childhood. Others moved from home to...
WHY OUR VALUES DEPEND UPON CHRISTIANITY
Tom Holland found himself in a dilemma. A popular historian, he had written several books on the classical world of Persia, Greece and Rome. Gradually he came to see that the values of that world were not his own. He was unsettled by the callousness and complete lack...
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO BECOME CHRISTIANS?
There has been much discussion recently on the growth of religious unbelief among young people. I have been asked what it would take for young people to become Christians. Here are some of my answers. A sense of guilt. The “requirements of the law are written on their...
MY READING LIST FOR 2019
As I review my reading over the past year I am aware of its variety and eclectic nature. Some books are old and some quite contemporary. Lots of history and biography. My central preoccupation has been with the works of my mentor John Stott. I have ploughed through...
ADVENT
The Book of Common Prayer, in which I was raised and guided my worship every Sunday, begins the Christian Year with the First Sunday in Advent. The prayer (Collect) for that day to be repeated every day until Christmas Eve is the following: Almighty God, give us grace...
THE PROBLEM OF THE APPEAL OF OUR MODERN, EASYGOING, TOLERANT GOD
What is common to the biblical concepts of the holiness and the wrath of God is the truth that they cannot coexist with sin. God’s holiness exposes sin; his wrath opposes it. So sin cannot approach God, and God cannot tolerate sin. Several vivid metaphors are used in...
THE THREE TRUTHS OF THE CROSS
The cross enforces three truths – about ourselves, about God, and about Jesus Christ. First, our sin must be extremely horrible. Nothing reveals the gravity of sin like the cross. For ultimately what sent Christ there was neither the greed of Judas, nor the envy o f...
DISCERNING THE SPIRITS
Study of 1 John 4:1-21 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that...
THE FAITH OF G.I. JOE
Henry T. Waskow was raised in the cotton country south of Temple, Texas, one of eight children in a family of German Baptists strapped enough to sew their clothes from flour sacking. Waskow was fair, blue-eyed, short and sober. A teenage lay minister, Waskow took...
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE RISE OF THE NONES?
Pew Research recently released a study that showed that more than a quarter of the U.S. population don’t identify with any religion – the ‘nones’. That has grown from 17 percent a decade ago. This ‘rise of the nones’ has caused much heart burn among the commentators...
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