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Faithroots on Youtube

As well as the written resources available here on Faithroot.com, I try to make resources available to watch and to listen to. Most of the video content is available on my YouTube channel accessible here. Here are a few playlists which may be of interest

Responding to some criticism

In response to conversations about Affinity’s proposal to create a UK version of The Gospel Coalition, I came in for a bit of criticism recently The criticism could be summed up as being to the effect that we should all want greater Gospel unity and therefore what am I personally doing to encourage it? In… Continue reading Responding to some criticism

Introducing Luke and the Gospels

Here’s the first podcast in our new Teaching and Training series “Introducing Jesus: A look at Jesus and the Gospels.”

Introducing Jesus – new teaching series

Welcome to our new Faithroots teaching and training series, an introduction to Jesus and the Gospels. If you had the opportunity to train at Theological College, then you would have the opportunity to cover a number of key areas of study. These would be One of my aims here on Faithroots is to make all… Continue reading Introducing Jesus – new teaching series

Infant baptism isn’t a form of comfort for the grieving

Yesterday I responded to one specific argument for reconsidering infant baptism. Today, I want to deal with another from this article. Like Steve Kneale, I don’t presume that Joe Barnard is seeking to pick fights and like Steve I am not looking for one. However, I was deeply concerned by the emotional appeal to “what… Continue reading Infant baptism isn’t a form of comfort for the grieving

“Stop” seems to be the hardest word (to hear)

Before Easter, Steve Kneale on his blog drew our attention to a recent article giving 5 reasons to reconsider infant baptism. I agree with Steve’s responses and in fact, the arguments are not significantly new but I did want to give a little bit more attention to two of them. One here and the other… Continue reading “Stop” seems to be the hardest word (to hear)

The New Perspective on Paul and the red herring of ethnicty

During my life time, one of the main, long running disputes in theology and Biblical studies has been around the Doctrine of Justification and what St Paul really taught. It began with the work of EP Sanders on Second Temple, Palestinian Judaism where he argued that the Jews of Jesus and Paul’s day were not… Continue reading The New Perspective on Paul and the red herring of ethnicty

Taking God’s name in vain and loving your neighbour

Recently I was listening to a sermon on the two greatest commandments. The preacher pointed us back to the original command to “love your neighbour” in Leviticus 19. Something about the context caught my eye and so I’ve come back for a second look. The command is found in Leviticus 19:18. You;; notice that it… Continue reading Taking God’s name in vain and loving your neighbour

Does the UK need The Gospel Coalition?

Affinity have announced in a press release plans to set up a UK version of The Gospel Coalition. TGC describes itself as “ a fellowship of evangelical churches in the Reformed tradition deeply committed to renewing our faith in the gospel of Christ and to reforming our ministry practices to conform fully to the Scriptures. “… Continue reading Does the UK need The Gospel Coalition?