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My book, JOHN STOTT: A Summary of his Teaching, which was published in 2021 has been re-issued by Langham Publishing in their Langham Global Library imprint on June 30, 2025. John Stott (1921-2011) was a popular and respected evangelical Anglican, pastor, preacher,...
WHAT A JOURNEY!
Sohrab Ahmari has had a fascinating life. Born and raised in Iran, where his parents were part of the secular professional class, he rejected the Islamic faith of the mullahs with its censorious condemnation of daily life. He found its teaching and practice full of...
GOD AND CAESAR
In an interview David McCullough lamented the lack of sense of our history today after a student from a prestigious college remarked that she did not realize that all the original thirteen colonies were on the east coast! One summer my wife and I drove to Maryland to...
THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD
And now [in conclusion], these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Cor.13:13 These three qualities are commonly listed together in the New Testament. They form a trinity of virtues which are to be desired in all believers. The...
LORD OF THE WORLD
Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) wrote a dystopian novel, LORD OF THE WORLD, in 1907. It has become well-known in our day through being rediscovered and commended by Popes Francis and Leo. Despite it being written more than a century ago it imagines a world of rapid...
SCIENCE, MIRACLES AND PRAYER
David Wilkinson is unique in that he is both a scientist and a Christian theologian. He can survey a massive amount of material to present a masterful argument for the way in which God can act in our lives. While the first chapter is a challenge to those with an...
BIBLICAL PROPHECY AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Recently a pastor friend of mine wrote to me about people in his congregation who were interpreting Revelation 20 in terms of the Israel-Iran war. Years ago I wrote about this issue when a similar situation arose in geopolitics. I visited Israel in 1965 when the West...
GOD IS LOVE
The Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated in the Christian Year as Trinity Sunday. It is usually the most challenging topic for preachers. The nature of God is beyond human imagining because of our finitude. Other religions find the doctrine of God as Holy Trinity as...
THE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
What changes a person with problems into a problem-solver? What changes a person who is a problem into becoming part of the solution? What changes a person who is seeking healing for himself into becoming a healer for others? What changes a person who is conflicted...
ASCENSION
Forty days after the resurrection Jesus disappeared! St. Luke wrote that “while he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.” (Luke 24:51) He vanished from before their very eyes. “A cloud hid him from their sight.” (Acts 1:9) What happened to him...
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