OK, this is now an official series. I was hoping a few articles on this would suffice, but how wrong I was. Every day another…
Scripture speaks of the final separation of the sheep and the goats, or the wheat and the tares. This is an eschatological judgment taking place…
The Spanish philosopher Santayana once said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. This is tragically true, and it is one…
This passage is difficult in the sense that it is a contentious passage, partly because of the way different English translations render it, and how…
Eschatology, or the study of the end times, is a real hot potato topic with plenty of differing views. All sorts of major battles have…
An agenda is different from a conspiracy. A conspiracy involves secret plans to achieve some harmful end, while an agenda is simply a list of…
Western Christians are not Israel, and most of us have not been physically carried away into captivity. But spiritually and metaphorically speaking that is exactly…
As the dust settles, let me offer here a few more reflections on the re-election of Obama. Plenty of commentary will be forthcoming in the…
Barack Hussein Obama has been returned to the White House. At this early stage he has won 275 of the 538 Electoral College votes. He…
Plenty of folks are quite careful how they live. They will spend lots of time in exercise, or carefully monitor what they eat, or take…
What should our emphasis be as believers? Should we only focus on the positive, or is there a place to also highlight the negative? For…
OK, this will have to be my final piece on the important US elections which are now only a few days away. The only other…
There are plenty of obvious oxymorons out there and one that has to be high on the list is this: “Christian Left”. Sure, these lefties…
Increasingly we are seeing our democratic freedoms being eroded at the hands of the various activist minority groups. As they push to have their agendas…
For Christians the importance of truth cannot be overstated. It is the very basis of our Christian faith and without it we have no real…
There are many ways in which the New Testament describes those who are not true Christians and that which is not the true gospel. In…
One of the great dangers of the Christian life is presumption. Specifically, it is always dangerous to presume that one is in fact a genuine…
There is a huge amount of material out there on the topics of Islam, the Middle East, the Muslim world, terrorism, jihad, creeping sharia, and…
Yes, it has been at least a week since my last instalment on the ‘tolerance brigade’. Simply wait a few days and a whole new…
Actually I must make a number of qualifications here at the outset: -This is not so much an article making this case, but a reminder…