I regularly challenge fellow believers not to ignore the Old Testament. After all, it is part of the Christian Bible, and it in fact comprises…
The book of Jeremiah has plenty to teach contemporary Christians. It is loaded with important spiritual themes which we all can draw from. Here are…
Crossway, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) There have been a number of important treatments of the issue of war and peace coming from…
The more nonsense I see emanating from so-called evangelical Christians, the more I despair. On a daily basis we see the faith once delivered by…
I have been using the term ‘theological correctness’ now for some years, and when I am asked what it means, I say I just made…
It is a good thing the New Testament canon was long ago recognised. I fear that in today’s PC and TC climate, the bulk of…
According to new census data religion is about to become extinct – at least in the Western world. Looking at figures from nine Western countries,…
Whenever I am asked where I am coming from theologically, I state that I am an evangelical Christian. However, since not everyone understands that term,…
I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that if any of the Old Testament prophets – or any of the New Testament disciples…
The physical world and the spiritual world often run along parallel lines. What is true in the one is often true in the other. In…
There are two quite wrong ways to come to terms with the biblical teaching on the eternal punishment of the lost. One is annihilationism, which…
One frustrating thing – of many – about the emerging church folks is their deliberate use of ambiguous, unclear, and equivocal writing. They seem to…
With a title like this, I have probably attracted about two or three readers. That is because the first term would send many folks racing…
Of all the attributes of God, his love is the one most often held up as fully and compellingly expressing who he is. While all…
Now that I have just upset the apple cart with a recent article on the justice of God, I might as well go the whole…
It is a bit risky to speak about God’s justice today, and here I especially have in mind talking to other believers about it. We…
As Western culture continues to head straight into the cesspool, there are at least two options. The downward decline will either continue unabated, or some…
We live in an age where people seem to want everything to come in a lite version. Because of busyness, or laziness, or what have…