I recently wrote about a new college set up in Oxford that purports to be a Classical Christian College. Now I appreciate that the college are unlikely to pick up on my little blog. However, I was hoping to encourage people to at least ask those questions themselves before getting involved in promoting Selden College. … Continue reading Selden College – the questions are still there
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John MacArthur, reformed folk religion and personality cults
Point of departure: responding to Matthew Barrett on leaving the SBC for Anglicanism
Matthew Barrett has recently announced that he has left the Southern Baptist Convention in favour of Anglicanism. This is significant because Barrett has been pushed forward as a leading spokesman of Classical Theism and evidence that it was possible to hold this position and remain baptistic. Barrett writes here about his reasons for departing. There’s… Continue reading Point of departure: responding to Matthew Barrett on leaving the SBC for Anglicanism
Separating the legal bit of the wedding from the celebration
The Times observes that people are increasingly separating the legal civil registration of marriage from the celebration, sometimes with a significant period of time in between. Steve Kneale picks up on this here and argues that it is s good thing and will help The Church get a better and more Biblical view of marriage. … Continue reading Separating the legal bit of the wedding from the celebration
Return of the King: video series
If you fancy digging into a book of the Bible through the summer, here is a series of talks on the book of Revelation …and here is the accompanying E-Book.
Biblical brackets
There’s a particular technique that shows up in Scripture where writers want to show that a train of thought is being followed through from start to conclusion. It functions to bracket various thoughts, points, narratives together and is known technically as an inclusion. The method use is to repeat a word, phrase or pericope at… Continue reading Biblical brackets
Shameful … Why EN need to be wise about what they publish on their letters page
Last month Jason Roach wrote an article for Evsngelicals Now looking at how the Gospel deals with our shame as well.aa our guilt. It was a very helpful article showing how some cultures are more alert to one or the other. The only change I would make is to give more emphasis to the fact… Continue reading Shameful … Why EN need to be wise about what they publish on their letters page
You might need to step back to get the point
There’s an old saying about not being able to see the wood for the trees. I wrote the other day about the problems with equating verse by verse with expositional preaching. In fact, a sermon may be expositional when taking a short phrase, a verse, passage, chapter or even whole book of the Bible. I… Continue reading You might need to step back to get the point
51
Today is my 51st birthday meaning that I’m closer to 100 than I am to the day I was born. It’s a good opportunity to pause and reflect. The Israelites set up a stone that they called Ebenezer, a stone of help. This recognised both that they could look back on what God had done… Continue reading 51
King Alfred School articles
Just to let readers know that I have paused articles on this subject and taken down the two articles that mention this specific school. This is my own decision following a conversation (initiated by me)with the school leader’s pastor and out of concern for the well being of those involved. It is worth noting that… Continue reading King Alfred School articles
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