Have a listen to this sermon. It was delivered by Bishop Cei Dewar at Christopher Wickland’s church. These are two key men in the current Christian Nationalism movement. Both spoke on the platform at the Unite the Kingdom rally. I was therefore interested in the talk partly because of that but also partly because we… Continue reading Preachers: Don’t make things that are about Jesus about yourself
Tag: Doctrine of God
Do we believe in the same God?
I had previously written about the question of whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Recently I picked up on the same type of question through for different reasons, asking whether Evangelicals and Roman Catholics believe in the same God. Well when I started to think about that question, I was already thinking that… Continue reading Do we believe in the same God?
None Greater
I must admit I wasn’t looking forward to reading “None Greater” by Matthew Barrett. Simply Trinity had not just left me frustrated and disappointed but angry as well. You can find out why here and here. None Greater is a much better offering but the bar was set quite low. Barrett’s book is about what… Continue reading None Greater
Oh thou who changest not: God as pure act and a warning about imported metaphysics
One of the challenges with the EFS debate was the tendency by those critiquing Grudem Ware and others was to get frustrated with their failure to follow classical theist formulations. They would then accuse those who held to EFS of either being in outright heresy or straying into heresy. The problem was that they ignored… Continue reading Oh thou who changest not: God as pure act and a warning about imported metaphysics
Talk about God. Some ways in which we can get our understanding of God wrong
One of the legitimate concerns in current debates is to know and speak of God correctly. In other words , we want to get our doctrine right. However, one of the risks we have is that we can be so concerned about making one mistake that we make another. Here are some dangers in how… Continue reading Talk about God. Some ways in which we can get our understanding of God wrong
Does the Good Father really allow his children to suffer?
At one extreme during the COVID coronavirus was the claim that the pandemic was a judgement from God or at least a wake up call from him. I have responded to this claim frequently and in detail in the past. However at the other extreme is the argument that God cannot have sent the pandemic… Continue reading Does the Good Father really allow his children to suffer?
If God predestines, why bother with evangelism?
There was an old apocryphal tale of little Calvinistic churches that didn’t put up notice boards with service times because if you were part of the elect, then you were predestined to be at church at the right time. I am not sure if anything like that has ever really happened. However, this has been… Continue reading If God predestines, why bother with evangelism?
How important exactly am I – when we demand too much in friendships
And now to Precosia. In some respects, I find this the saddest of all the scenarios we have looked at. Why do I say that? It’s not to diminish the seriousness of the other situations. However, I think that generally speaking we are more likely to get what is stake with the other ones.[1] When… Continue reading How important exactly am I – when we demand too much in friendships
Learning to Enjoy God – An Alcoholic meets the good God
When we came to Methuselah, the alcoholic, we intuitively went to Ephesians 5:18: “Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Here we see that being filled with the Spirit is contrasted – not compared – with being drunk on wine. I think that one… Continue reading Learning to Enjoy God – An Alcoholic meets the good God
The doctrine of God and a marriage on the rocks
Now we return to Tom, Gladys and Ethel. Tom had been giving Ethel lifts to home group whilst his wife Gladys stayed at home. When we first met their situation, we talked about a gut instinct that things were wrong and that we weren’t getting to hear the whole story. Tom had admitted that his… Continue reading The doctrine of God and a marriage on the rocks
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