I have written before about aspects of the Positive Confession movement, in which a sort of mind-over-matter approach is taken. Also known as the Word…
A major feature of the Word of Faith movement, and/or the Health and Wealth Gospel, is the emphasis on positive confession. It is a kind…
One major part of the health and wealth gospel is the positive confession movement. Also known as “name it and claim it” teaching, this spurious…
Beatty Street, 2010. Patrick Moore was a founder of Greenpeace back in the early 70s. He was a radical environmentalist who became a sensible environmentalist.…
More quite unhelpful memes: Because there is never a shortage of not very helpful and often quite silly and reckless posters, memes and sayings floating…
Some words in reply to those who disagree with me: I write about theology all the time, so it is no surprise that I get…
This is another passage so often massacred by Christians: I really must retitle this series. Most of the passages I have looked at are not…
A few thoughts on Christians and depression: Christians and depression. Some think the two can never go together, but I beg to differ. Let me…
Here are more really bad memes that we should not be using or sharing online. Memes are one way to express important ideas, especially on…
OK, these are certainly some rather large topics that I am attempting to cover in a very short article. But it follows on from a…
Avoiding unbiblical extremes and staying within the bounds of the data of Scripture is paramount for the Christian. I have been writing of late on…
It should go without saying that no Christian would want to be involved in magic – or at least most forms of it. Some things,…
One might argue that only a morose and maudlin melancholic or a moody misanthrope would dare to write such a piece (let alone offer such…
As part of my ongoing series on dumb sayings and posters, I offer a few more for your enjoyment and edification. Given that the social…
Some of you will recall the 1967 hit tune by crooner Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World,” later re-popularised in the 1987 Robin Williams film,…
“Learn how to love yourself” says a current television ad for yet another “Mind, Body, Spirit” festival. This is of course a New Age get-together…
Often I will get a fellow believer complain to me. They do not like the fact that I raise certain issues which they would rather…
In light of the theological framework developed in Part One of this article, I want to flesh this out in some practical specifics, looking at…