My thesis is pretty simple: if Christians prefer not to eat meat for health reasons, dietary reasons, perhaps cultural reasons, or even moral reasons, that’s…
It is often said that a new Christian should not start reading the Old Testament, because they will likely get bogged down and frustrated by…
Right now we are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The network of concentration camps set up by the Nazis in occupied…
I am reading the book of Exodus again and I had just gotten up to chapter twenty, where the Ten Commandments appear. I found myself…
The record of Christian history over the past two thousand years is of course a mixed bag, with so much good at times offset with…
A very common – but mistaken – claim made all the time is that we are all God’s children. Whether a person is a Christian…
I was recently asked what I thought of a piece arguing that life only happens at the first breath, and that abortion is therefore just…
One set of passages often appealed to by those pushing the prosperity gospel are the Old Testament texts which speak of the promises of material…
OK, a few disclaimers. This article is likely to be read by almost no one. So why bother to write it? Well, it’s my website…
It can be said quite assuredly that America, along with so much of the West, is the home of the most materialistic, consumeristic, self-centred, money-hungry…
I am reluctant to pen this piece for the simple reason that various die-hard armchair theologians of different persuasions may miss the point of what…
OK, Christmas is fast approaching, so the need to find good gifts is upon us. And what better gifts are there than books? So to…
It is fully to be expected that non-Christians will vehemently reject what is clearly taught in the Word of God. Happens all the time. Sadly…
As we have shown in Part One, the truth is, on biblical and exegetical grounds, the annihilationists have very little space to stand on. The Scriptures…
Most people in the West may know little or nothing about the Bible, about Christianity, about church life – all the things that made the…
I have included this passage of Scripture in my series of difficult Bible texts not so much because it is quite difficult to grasp or…
Regrettably far too many Christians like Christianity primarily just for one thing: it is a neat form of life insurance. They have made a decision…
Today it seems that theology is as popular for Christians as a ham sandwich is for Muslims. Most Christians avoid it like the plague. The…