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Godless Ethics and Egoism
Given that I’m on a roll of offensiveness with my previous post on marriage, I thought I’d see if I can break a record of the number of people I can offend in one week by blogging about ethics. This term at college, we’ve started a course on ethics, and we spent the first week
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What is an ‘Evangelical’?
For those outside the church, the label ‘evangelical’ may have a connotation of rainbow guitar straps, the Alpha course, happy-clappy dancing and so on. Inside the church … well, it all depends. It’s a label which somewhat resists definition: it’s not ‘owned’ by anyone, and these days it seems everyone wants to define themselves as
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Comedy and Christianity
I watched an interesting programme on TV last night called “Are you having a laugh? Comedy and Christianity” (still available to watch on the BBC iPlayer at the time of writing). I didn’t agree with everything in the programme but I think it raised some interesting points: things do seem to have changed in the
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The Trinity: What’s the Point?
The theologian Robert Letham once wrote: For the vast majority of Christians, including most ministers and theological students, the Trinity is still a mathematical conundrum, full of imposing philosophical jargon, relegated to an obscure alcove remote from daily life. (Source) I wonder if that’s something you can identify with? Is the Trinity something which you’ve
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The Woman at the Well
And by ‘the woman at the well’ I mean the ‘woman of Samaria’ of John 4. You know, the fattest woman in the Bible (the “woman of some area”… geddit? GEDDIT? HAHAHAHA! Sorry.) Anyway, we were studying John 4 in our class a couple of weeks ago, and I really enjoyed it. In our class
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Sermon: Genesis 42-45, Joseph and his Brothers Reconciled
On Sunday night I preached at the evening service of Christ Church Cockfosters. I haven’t got the audio available just yet, but if you’d like to read the approximate text of what I preached, I’ve attached the script. If I get the audio too I will update this post. You might want to have the passage
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Knowing God: Children of God
This is the final part of my lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. I’ve now finished reading ‘Knowing God’, and I found it to be an excellent book! I’d like to blog on just one more chapter – although all of them were helpful. The chapter in question talks about being
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Knowing God: God’s Wrath
This is part of my lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. A few years ago we went to New Word Alive (you may remember me blogging about the experience … but probably not). Anyway, I recall thinking in one of the main meetings, “every song we’ve sung tonight so far
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Knowing God: God’s Love
This is part of my Lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. “God is Love” has to be one of the most famous statements about God in the Bible (1 John 4:8, 16) – it’s in the passage which is often read out at weddings. But, it is also one of
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Knowing God: God’s Wisdom
This is the third part of blogging my way through “Knowing God” – see the intro post here. Yesterday I read the chapter “God’s Wisdom and Ours”, which I really needed to hear! One thing which I found particularly helpful was Jim Packer’s analogy about a railway station. Allow me to explain. If you go