There is good and bad forgetfulness: We all have moments of forgetfulness. Obviously as you get older this can become an evermore pressing problem. Dementia…
God is no fan of religious syncretism and idolatry: Most modern westerners want nothing to do with religion, but if they must have it, they…
Forgetting and forsaking God has serious repercussions: Western history is in large part the story of God and his people at work. Yet most Westerners…
Warnings must be given when danger abounds: Life is full of danger, risk, peril and misadventure. So many things can go wrong. So many traps…
Christians today of necessity must be rebels: Normally when a Christian discusses things like rebellion, it is done so in a negative light. That is,…
We can use a few Josiahs today: Many of you know about the bright light that was King Josiah of Judah who reigned in a…
We can learn much from the exile of ancient Israel: The West has really gone full circle: many centuries ago paganism was replaced with Christianity.…
The Bible offers many cases of resistance to authority: I recently created a new sub-category of articles on this website called “Resistance Theory.” As it…
God always prefers to work through a godly remnant: A truth found in Scripture and in history is that God normally seems to work through…
Sexual immorality matters – big time: The Bible throughout warns about sin and its consequences, and plenty of different sorts of sins are mentioned of…
The words of warning given by Jeremiah to ancient Israel seem to be fully needed in today’s church. Now that I have your attention, no,…
OK, I have finally done it – I have penned a piece on tattoos! I have long put off writing a piece on this for…
The Bible speaks about apostasy. Church history provides us with many cases of apostasy. But just what might it look like today? What kind of…
The nation of New Zealand continues to mourn over the massacre of last week. Today several minutes of silence took place, along with Muslim prayer.…
Today a decidedly religious experience will be experienced by millions of people. There is a shrine in Melbourne Australia dedicated to this event, and it…
We all have our idols, and we all must deal with these idols. An idol is anything which commands our attention and loyalty over and…
Atheists, sceptics and other critics of Christianity like to make the claim that the biblical account of creation is simply stolen from earlier pagan myths…
Last night I was reading in Spurgeon’s Mornings and Evenings devotional. As would be expected from Spurgeon, every page seems to be loaded with spiritual…
As stated in my first article on this topic, there are heaps of spiritual truths that can be found in the accounts of the kings…
As is so often the case, a good thing can be perverted and end up causing great harm. This can be true of compassion when…