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What are church leaders reading these days? From the blogs that I receive they are reading a very selective range of books. One post recommended 16 books every church leader should read on their next sabbatical. It listed books on leadership, team building, vision...
WHY CHRISTIANITY WILL NEVER BE A MAJORITY AND THERE WILL NEVER BE WORLDWIDE JUSTICE AND PEACE
“Nowhere in the New Testament do we find any expectation that in the course of the centuries mankind will become Christian, so that the opposition between the world and the Church would be overcome in historical time. But the contrary is true: the Christian community...
THE FALLACY OF THE ARGUMENT THAT SINCE WE ARE BORN THAT WAY WE SHOULD BE ACCEPTED AS WE ARE
A recent letter to the local newspaper makes a case for accepting human behavior on the basis that we are all born with our inclinations, and are therefore not morally responsible for them. If God made us this way then we should accept ourselves as we are and others...
HOW DO YOU IMAGINE JESUS?
How do you imagine Jesus? Each of us has our own perception. In St. Faith’s Anglican Church, Rotorua, New Zealand, there is an etching of Jesus seen as a Maori chief in a window that gives the impression that he is walking on the waters of the lake. It is not...
FAITH AND THE CLOSED MIND
Unbelief is that state of mind which refuses to learn; it means the closed mind. To him “who has ears to hear,” Christ says, “I am the Christ.” To refuse to listen means that we are obstinate; it is sinful disobedience. But it is only to the believing soul that Christ...
WHAT IS FAITH AND WHY IS IT DEPENDENT UPON THE BIBLE?
"The revelation contained in the Bible is the proclamation of the self-movement of the absolute unchangeable God, the proclamation of the personal, living God, the One who reveals Himself…. Revelation is the coming of God in the Word… The whole of the Old Testament...
DOES GOD LOVE US JUST THE WAY WE ARE?
A letter to the editor of our local daily newspaper begins with this question: “What if God, creator of the universe and each individual in it, loves us just the way we are?” Sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Sounds loving and accepting doesn’t it? But if that is so then...
HOW MAY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFFECT RELIGIOUS LIBERTY?
CITY JOURNAL Adam Freedman Obergefell’s Threat to Religious Liberty The Supreme Court decision takes self-government out of Americans’ hands. 1 July 2015 Despite what the newspaper headlines say, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges did not...
WHY HAS GOD CHOSEN TO REVEAL HIMSELF UNIQUELY THROUGH ISRAEL AND JESUS CHRIST?
When you consider the claims of Christianity to a unique revelation of God in Christ as in Acts 4:12, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved” I find the following explanation of Emil Brunner to be helpful....
RESPONSE TO THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
In the light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to same-sex marriage the following two statements represent my belief. The first is that of the Bishops of the Anglican Church of North America, and the second is from Albert Mohler, the President of Southern...
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