Eat Pray Love – Heaven or Hell

I love long-haul plane flights.  No kidding.  Love them. It’s 24 hours where no-one expects anything from you. You slouch in your seat and play video-games while long-suffering helpers serve your merest whim.  It’s like being a teenager all over again. And the guiltiest of all pleasures – you allow yourself to watch Truly Terrible [...]

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Christ in all of Scripture – by an 11 year old

Don’t just teach your youth the bible. Teach them Christ in the bible. Can you imagine if he’d tried to unify the bible with any other grand theme?  We’d have said, “Cor, that kid’s got a good memory!”  Or “Gosh, that’s an interesting common denominator.” Instead he preaches Christ and we say “What a Saviour!” [...]

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Take a look at TenLooks

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus!” – Hebrews 12:2 For every look at self—take ten looks at Christ! –Robert Murray McCheyne Hin-Tai and Chris have a brilliant new blog that you should all add to your readers.  It promises to be Christ-centred, trinitarian, affective  and pastoral.  Four thumbs up. In his latest post, Hin-Tai [...]

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Happy Friday

I’m not all about the cheap laugh you know…  

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The Offence of Illness

I wrote the following 2 years ago as Emma was suffering from terrible gastro complaints.  Unfortunately her problems are as debilitating today as they were then.  And the lessons we were learning then we’re having to reapply to our hearts every day.  Chronic illness remains an affront to the flesh.  Our natural desire is to [...]

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Words eh?

This week I had a couple of chuckles over the words people had chosen. First was an email from an internet accountability site.  It told me that a friend had accessed websites that were “Highly Mature.”  Judging by the domain names, “infantile” would have been a much better description.  There’s nothing adult about porn. The [...]

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The Power of Vulnerability – TED Talk

What Brene Brown says: Connection is why we’re here But shame = fear of disconnection Everyone has shame. The only people without shame have no capacity for empathy No one wants to talk about shame but the less you talk about it, the more you have it For connection to happen you have to be allowed [...]

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How Great A Salvation

Rich Owen preaching on Manasseh’s conversion – 2 Chronicles 33.  Awesome!

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Tempted?

Imagine if Satan tried Luke 4:1-13 on me: Temptation 1: Curse you devil!  You know I’ve been suppressing my powers of food alchemy. Temptation 2: Thou diabolical tempter!  You know how I crave the world’s government on my shoulders! Temptation 3: Damn and blast!  You know how I love to abandon my life to the [...]

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Happy Friday

 

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The literal IS the christocentric (repost)

I recently re-read Nathan Pitchford’s excellent short article on the reformers’ hermeneutic. His basic point is that Sola Scriptura always leads to Solus Christus.  The literal reading simply is the christocentric reading. For Luther, the grammatical-historical hermeneutic was simply the interpretation of scripture that “drives home Christ.” As he once expressed it, “He who would read the [...]

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Book By Book – Free DVD

Paul Blackham writes the studies, Richard Bewes hosts them and special guests include KP Yohannan, Don Carson, George Verwer, Rico Tice. It’s meaty, it’s heart-felt, it’s Christ-focused.  It’s Matthew Henry for a television age. I can give no bigger recommendation than this:  my mother’s bible study group have done every single one of them back [...]

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In the bosom of Jesus in the bosom of the Father – A Sermon on 1 John 1:1-4

A sermon on 1 John 1:1-4 Audio here That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched–this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and [...]

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For God’s Sake Don’t Grow Up For God’s Sake

For God’s Sake Grow Up For Your Neighbour’s Sake . This is just a reflection on that saying of Luther’s: “God doesn’t need your good works.  Your neighbour does.” And Dave K’s observation that, post-resurrection, no-one summarizes the law with “love God and love neighbour” but only with “love neighbour”. . A friend recently told [...]

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A Sick Note For Life

I hate my struggles and I want them.  Both at the same time. They act as a sick note for life. Incredible post from Emma! . Some day every blog will be a Scrivener blog…

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The Message of Proverbs: Watch Out for the Ladies

Sermon on Proverbs Audio Here The book of Proverbs is a long and colourful fireside chat.  It’s the words of a father to his son.  Verse 1 introduces us to the father: The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel Verse 8 addresses the son: 8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction [...]

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“The delay of the parousia”

The myth of the ‘delay of the parousia’ has largely grown up in the modern world to fill the vacuum left when scholars insisted that the resurrection didn’t happen. For the early Christians, God’s new world – the world where God’s writ runs – had already begun, and they were living in it by the [...]

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Happy Friday

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