Podcast of McCheyne Bible Readings

Hear the whole bible in a year http://www.esv.org/blog/2008/10/all-podcasts/ Happy New Year

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Marriage wisdom

My wife and I are running a marriage course over the next three Monday nights. What should we cover?

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Dying

“You need to repent” – sure “You must put that practice to death” – true “You must die” – more like it “You have been crucified with Christ, the world is crucified to you and you to the world.” – now you’re cooking with Holy Ghost power. . Meditating on Galatians 6:14 this morning I [...]

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“Just thinking about it makes me smile…”

I’ve just listened to a seminar on hospitality. Some verses on why we should Some more verses as examples from the bible. Then testimony after testimony from couples who grew up in hospitable homes, who rejoice to welcome people into their families and can’t help smiling even at the thought of hospitality. And in the [...]

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All age Christmas sermon

For some reason my preaching rises by an octave in all-age services.  Here’s my Christmas morning falsetto sermon on Galatians 4:4-7. Christmas turns slaves to sons because He shared in our life so that we can share in His. .

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Best Christmas Sermon Ever

Happy Christ-mas Here’s Paul Blackham’s wonderful Christmas Eve sermon on Genesis 3:15 .

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Incarnation and Creation [Thawed out Thursday]

This post first appeared last year in a series of three on the incarnation.  The other two are: Incarnation and trinity and Incarnation and salvation. . Christ is “The Beginning”, “The Alpha”, “The First”.  His Person is itself the basis for creation.  He is the One who is eternally Other from the Father and the foundation [...]

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Marital compatibility a.k.a. Interlocking Neuroses

Why do two people end up marrying?  Love at first sight?  Spiritual discernment? I just came across my new favourite phrase: “interlocking neuroses.” Bully seeks victim for ongoing abuse and re-abuse Emotionally detached seeks career obsessed for parallel existence Noble rescuer seeks troubled soul for noble rescuing Damaged soul seeks jovial baffoon for shallow comfort [...]

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Christ is God’s election in human flesh

Athanasius… declares that Christ the eternal Son is the “living will” of the Father, and as such His Advent is the advent of the decree, God’s choice, in human flesh.  (Peter Leithart) Is God’s election secret or revealed?  Both.  It’s hidden.  But hidden in Christ – Matthew 11:25-28: 25At that time Jesus said, “I praise [...]

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Christmas brings a crisis

Jesus shows up as the God that everyone else just talks about.  And He’s very different.  He demands that we begin again with Him. Sunday’s sermon on John 1:15-18 .

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Mike Reeves on the incarnation

The verse the early post-apostolic church probably turned to most to guide their understanding was Hebrews 2:14, ‘Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil’. In other words, [...]

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Another great Christmas video

From Tim Ambrose and his youth club: .

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Small gods we fall for

Ron Frost has written a cracker on some of the domesticated gods we Christians buy into: …There is the fire insurance God. His greatest concern is to find as many policy holders as possible. His premiums vary, depending on the Christian community that sells his policies, but the payments are usually behavioral: mainly church attendance, [...]

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Carolling in the Name of…

Finally.  The success they deserve -  Rage Against the Machine have the UK’s Christmas number 1. And for those who have been following the exploits of this feisty four-piece, it’s more apt than you know. It all began when Zachary Ragg formed his little beat-combo Ragg and the Be Cleans.  They hit the road, playing [...]

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Now that’s a wedding sermon

Huh?? .

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CS Lewis on men and women in the Purgatorial Kitchen

From a letter to an American woman, 31.7.62 I have a notion that, apart from actual pain, men and women are quite diversely afflicted by illness.  To a woman one of the great evils about it is that she can’t do things.  To a man (or anyway a man like me) the great consolation is [...]

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God’s Top Gun of Deliverance

Huh? from defending contending. .

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Quiet Times [Thawed out Thursdays]

I’ve been listening to sermons from the web on Luke 14.  It’s Jesus at a banquet.  He heals on the Sabbath, He teaches about refusing the seats of honour, He calls us to invite the poor, crippled, lame and blind to dinner and He speaks of the kingdom as a great feast.  Wonderful stuff. But [...]

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