Easter and Suffering

I’ve been thinking about suffering recently. Easter tells you everything you need to know. Meditate on each of these truths for 5 minutes and it will revolutionize your thinking about God, yourself and the world. 1) The Cross shows us God’s perfection… Therefore suffering can never be incompatible with the all-wise, all-powerful, all-good God (1 Corinthians [...]

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Don’t trust the supralapsarian youth leader

Here’s a thawed out post from two years ago… Last week at youth club it was pandemonium.  We had to ban 3/4 of the kids for this week. So tonight we were expecting small numbers.  But not as small as it turned out.  Only four turned up.  And three of them had actually been banned [...]

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Dying with Jesus [repost]

How do you think of judgement and salvation? If you ask me – you shouldn’t think like this: Instead think like this: Or to be a bit more nuanced - like this. Now I could take this observation in many directions. Perhaps we could explore its significance for an infra versus supra-lapsarian debate. Perhaps we could [...]

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Don’t trust the supralapsarian youth leader

Last week at youth club it was pandemonium.  We had to ban 3/4 of the kids for this week. So tonight we were expecting small numbers.  But not as small as it turned out.  Only four turned up.  And three of them had actually been banned the week before and should not have been there.  [...]

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Thawed out Thursday – The Way of the LORD

A re-post From Genesis 1, the way of the LORD has always been forming, then filling. The filled-out reality is there by anticipation even in the forming. The intention for filling is included in the forming. But still the order is ‘form, then fill.’: In Gen 1:2 – a formless and empty creation is then [...]

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Dying with Jesus

How do you think of judgement and salvation? If you ask me – you shouldn’t think like this:   Instead think like this:   Or to be a bit more nuanced – like this. Now I could take this observation in many directions. Perhaps we could explore its significance for an infra versus supra-lapsarian debate. [...]

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The Way of the LORD

From Genesis 1, the way of the LORD has always been forming, then filling. The filled-out reality is there by anticipation even in the forming. The intention for filling is included in the forming. But still the order is ‘form, then fill.’: In Gen 1:2 – a formless and empty creation is then formed (days [...]

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