Sacred Musings
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The Future of Bible Uncancelled / UTB
Note: This post was automatically important from Substack. Please excuse any broken links or images! Important information for subscribers I announced recently that I was going to stop posting the Bible Uncancelled to its own separate Substack and roll it into Understand the Bible. I’ve also spoken about taking a sabbatical from doing UTB videos.…
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Revisiting "Just" preach the gospel
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. Please excuse any broken links or images! Coming full circle in my thinking There’s a school of thought which says that churches should just preach the gospel. That is, the church isn’t there to tell you who to vote for and get involved in contentious political or social…
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What happened to the old Sacred Musings videos?
You may have noticed that I’ve recently transitioned Sacred Musings to “The Bible Uncancelled”. I’ve explained my thinking behind this in my introduction video: I decided the best thing to do was to set up a new YouTube channel for this, as I don’t like the way that Substack handles livestreams at the moment. While…
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Has the church forgotten the real meaning of Christmas?
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. Please excuse any broken links or images! What happens when Christmas is empty Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing a short series called ‘Rethinking Church’. 1 One of the most important lessons from the series is that church cannot simply be ‘by rote’ or a performative…
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What about the Lord's Supper?
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. Please excuse any broken links or images! Rethinking Church, part eight With this piece we reach the final part of the ‘Rethinking Church’ series. The topic is such a controversial one — some might say it’s been the most divisive and controversial issue in the whole history of…
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We can't vote our way out of this…
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. … but that doesn’t mean we can’t resist On the podcast last week, I spoke about my problem with Charlie Kirk. The biggest issue was, to my mind, that he made politics…
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What should a church gathering look like?
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part seven Yesterday, we thought about the overall purpose of church gatherings. You could summarise it with one word — ‘edification’: when the church gets together, it should be for…
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What's the point of church gatherings?
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part six If you had to pick one word to sum up what church gatherings were all about, what would you choose? I suspect many would plump for ‘worship,’ but…
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Church gatherings are not 'Worship' or 'Services'
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part five In this part of the ‘rethinking church’ series, we finally reach the purpose of church gatherings. Why do we get together, and what should our gatherings look like?…
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The church as family and house churches
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part four I have spoken here several times about how I am no longer in a regular church denomination or attend traditional ‘church’. Instead, for the last 2-3 years, a…