Writing on The Gospel Coalition website, Kyle Strobel asks: “Have you had the experience of feeling like your prayers simply bounced off the ceiling? Or your Scripture reading ceased to feel as meaningful as it once did? Have you looked back at seasons that felt like lush gardens of excitement, passion, and zeal for the… Continue reading Does God desert us?
Category: Theology
Desire and temptation: Essays on the concupiscence controversy
I’ve recently published all my articles on the debate around whether desire and temptation are sin in one e-book. Here’s the introduction to that volume. This little book started life as a series of articles for Faithroot.com in 2024. At the time a little controversy had begun to brew in conservative evangelical circles. Technically the… Continue reading Desire and temptation: Essays on the concupiscence controversy
Cultivating the affections
Psalm 37:4 tells us to Delight yourself in the Lord and he will grant you the desires of your heart”. Such positive encouragement should caution us to a wholely negative view of desire as automatically and only sin. We can have good desires. We may also think of those things as affections, the people, things,… Continue reading Cultivating the affections
Whose name are you baptised in?
A good few years back, we were just getting ready to baptise a couple of people when a spanner was thrown in the works. One of those getting baptised arrived and came to see me saying that they only wanted to be baptised in the name of Jesus because in Acts, it was always in… Continue reading Whose name are you baptised in?
Douglas Wilson, Bethel, Christian Nationalism and confessional boundaries
Anthony Bradley writes about Douglas Wilson: In February 2026, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth extended an invitation to Moscow, Idaho pastor Doug Wilson to lead a Christian prayer service at the Pentagon. The invitation generated immediate and considerable national attention: not least because Wilson has, over the course of several decades, developed a political theology… Continue reading Douglas Wilson, Bethel, Christian Nationalism and confessional boundaries
Latest training course – Jesus and the Gospels
The full “Jesus and the Gospels” programme is available from the Faithroots Training pages. The course includes a video series to accompany the e-book. In the near future I’m also hoping to add a study guide.
Desire and Temptation
Back in early 2025, there was a heated debate amongst reformed evangelicals. Some were quick to insist that not only our thoughts, words and actions but the very root desire and temptation itself were sin. Not only that but they were confident that anyone who disagreed was in, or at least in real danger of… Continue reading Desire and Temptation
Paul, women teaching and authority
Here’s some reflections on 1 Timothy 2 and the role of men and women in the church You may also be interested in this E-book that looks at the bigger subject
Eagerly desire prophecy
Here’s another video in my series on gifts of the Spirit
Playing Jesus: Further reflections on that image of Donald Trump
On Monday, Donald Trump posted this image on social media before withdrawing it. There has been understandable outrage at Trump’s post. However, there can be ways in which we all are tempted into trying to play the part of Jesus. I explore the question further in this short video.
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