Category: Theology

The Trinity, Family and work

In our last post, we met Albert Hall. Albert is good at his job, but also working incredibly long hours.  How does what he believes affect how he lives? Our aim here is not to go through every aspect of the pastoral situation.  We may well come back and do that later in order to… Continue reading The Trinity, Family and work

Applying the Trinity – meet some people

We’ve kept saying that what we believe affects how we live.  So what does it mean to live out our belief in God the Trinity in daily life?  It’s time to meet some people. Albert First of all, meet Albert. Albert is 45 years old, married with two children and he works as a manager… Continue reading Applying the Trinity – meet some people

Applying the Trinity

We’ve already seen something of how important the Doctrine of the Trinity is. It points us clearly to God’s character as the God who is love and it is essential to our understanding of salvation. We now want to pick up on one or two other practical applications. Unity and Diversity What type of Universe… Continue reading Applying the Trinity

Why what we think about The Trinity Matters

We’ve kept emphasising that what we believe about God matters.  When we talk about the Trinity, we are not just in the business of theological formulations and intellectual arguments.  This stuff matters practically for our daily lives and our eternal assurance. Three things that matter:  What we can and can’t say about the Trinity My… Continue reading Why what we think about The Trinity Matters

What the Bible tells us about the Trinity

Is the Trinity Biblical? “The Trinity is just made up. The word doesn’t even exist in the Bible.” Down through history, this has been the great objection raised against orthodox Christian belief. In modern times, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in particular have argued vehemently that the whole idea owes more to pagan religion and philosophy than… Continue reading What the Bible tells us about the Trinity

Another helper

Whilst working through Mark’s Gospel in early 2015 at Bearwood Chapel, we kept coming  back to some questions that followed a theme: “What stops me?” “What stops me from seeing God for who He is?”                                                                   “What stops me from worshipping?” “What stops me from truly knowing God?” “What stops me from trusting and taking God… Continue reading Another helper

Embodied or virtual?

 I would like to return to one of the big questions from the pandemic.  What is embodied worship and does it really matter?  As I wrote recently, there seemed to be an assumption in debates that there were those who cared passionately about Scripture’s injunctions to gather or assemble for worship, who believed that this… Continue reading Embodied or virtual?

God is love and God is Trinity

Mike Reeves opens his book “The Good God” with this comment: “God is love”: those three words could hardly be more bouncy.  They seem lively, lovely and as warming as a crackling fire.  But ‘God is a Trinity’?  No, hardly the same effect, that sounds cold and stodgy.[1] But like me, Reeves is firmly convinced… Continue reading God is love and God is Trinity

Talking about God –starting in a surprising place

Lies about God lead to mess and destruction in our lives.  So we will want to respond to those lies with truth in order to re-orientate and correct our view of what God is like.  Where to begin? Now here’s the surprise: we’re going to start by talking about the Doctrine of the Trinity.  That… Continue reading Talking about God –starting in a surprising place