Christians make the best atheists

Wonderful article by Alastair Roberts on Atheism and Christianity.  Every paragraph’s a winner, how about this to whet your appetite: The target of much atheist protest is the god that secures all meaning and makes sense of the world, the religion that serves as a crutch and underwrites the social order, the faith that inures one [...]

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Happy Friday

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is on iPlayer now. A lovely bit of silliness… And speaking of silliness, this is great.  Warning: a lot of swearing at the end…      

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What exactly does “theocentric” mean?

Adapted from a previous post… What does it mean to be God-centred? Three answers: As a description of theology, it’s inescapable. As a method of theology, it’s indispensible. As a doctrine of God, it’s incorrect. First, as a description of theology… Simone Weil put our inescapable theo-centricity like this: “No human being escapes the necessity [...]

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“God is love” — from The King’s English

Click for source It’s universally popular.  You can find it cross-stitched on Granny’s mantle-piece and emblazoned on a rock star’s T-shirt. It tumbles from the lips of bible-thumping fundamentalists and soft-spoken gurus. But what does it mean? Let’s consider four points… Because God is love, there is relationship, radiance, room and response. Relationship 1 John [...]

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Christmas at the King’s English

Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women My soul doth magnify the Lord She wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for [...]

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Anti-Santy-Ranty En Francais

Thanks to Vincent Marty-Terrain for translating! On dit que tout là-haut vivrait un grand barbu, Soi-disant très joyeux, mais… difficile à dire : Je ne l’ai jamais vu, en fait, et toi non plus. Mais les enfants y croient, ça peut bien nous suffire. On le dit solitaire, et puis plein de mystère, Pas le [...]

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Happy Christmas Everyone: Enjoy My Favourite Christmas Sermon Ever!

 

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My Favourite Carols

Here’s a Christmas carols playlist.  39 minutes of Carolling glory while you wrap your presents.  You’re welcome! And here’s the first one: Unto Us a Child is Born Thou Who Wast Rich Hark The Herald Infant Holy, Infant Lowly Angels From the Realms of Glory See Amid the Winter’s Snow From the Squalor of a [...]

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Happy Friday

And here’s the closed captions for my video (you click on the little CC button at the bottom right) Continue reading for the transcript…

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Happy Incarnation-Fest

Dear Christmas Preachers, Did you know that Christmas is about the incarnation?  No, but seriously, did you?  Cos I aint hearing much theology of incarnation.  Which is odd, don’t you think? Visiting the worthy sermon repositories in England and the US, I’ve listened to dozens of “Christmas sermons” over advent.   Yet I’ve found that, [...]

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Anti Santy Ranty: The Video

It’s very rushed. I’d only just written it when we filmed, so didn’t memorize it.  We shot it in haste and had big trouble with the sound.  We’ll try to do a proper version for next year.  But… you get the idea.  Share it around if you like:  

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A Poetic Anti Santy Ranty

They say there’s a big man who lives far away, Supposedly jolly but it’s hard to say. I’ve never seen him, and neither have you. But the children believe, and I spose that’ll do. He’s known as a loner, with many a quirk No time for a chat, he’s embroiled in his work He keeps [...]

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Sermon: Luke 1:26-38

Less of a sermon, more of an advent calendar… Text Audio Slides

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Some Older Christmas Sermons (feel free to rip them off, I can’t even remember who I stole them from !)

Psalm 72 – one of my favourites Student Carols – Isaiah 9 Christmas is God laying hold of us – Hebrews 2:14-18 Evangelistic carols service – Light shining in darkness – Isaiah 9:2-7 (different to the other Isaiah 9) Luke 1:26-38 In the beginning… – John 1:1-2 The Word became flesh – John 1:14 Christmas brings [...]

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From the Squalor (Capo 7)

Here’s a simplified guitar tab for From the Squalor – one of my favourite carols. . The proper tab can be found at Christisinn’s excellent channel with over a hundred hymns for guitar (really loving his latest upload O Jesus My Hope).

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Ten Minute Carols Talk: “Immanuel”

Audio.

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Happy Friday

O unHoly Noise Fastforward to 5:43 for the updated performance. Just as nauseating: .  

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It was Mormonism I was looking for all along

A repost from  two years ago… Today I had two very different meetings with a similar theme. One person – a really great Christian – confessed to me that they’d prayed for God to enter their life many thousands of times but never got the answer they were looking for.  I could relate – this [...]

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