As always, getting the biblical balance right is utterly crucial – not only so that we may believe correctly, but that we may live correctly…
My thesis is simple: To urge people to love Jesus more, to obey him more fully, and seek for increasing holiness and godliness is NOT…
I think it may be a truism to say that the more unpopular a particular biblical teaching is, the more important and necessary it is.…
Truth is crucially important and adhering to what is true is far more vital than what we imagine. But trying to make this case becomes…
Although this term is likely not known by most folks – even most Christians – it lies at the heart of the biblical understanding of…
Socrates long ago said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Yet tragically most people simply glide through life without any serious self-examination or…
Let me set things straight at the outset: in terms of our initial regeneration, this is a work purely done by God. We do not…
“There is nothing new under the sun” we are told in Ecclesiastes 1:9. And as Santayana once remarked, those who fail to learn the lessons…
There are some vital biblical truths which are so utterly essential and important, that there is no problem in repeating them over and over again.…
OK, another obscure title – but not too obscure for the biblically literate. I here wish to deal with an ongoing controversy about Christ, the…
Auto-diagnostics, or self-testing, is done all the time by sensible people. They take regular stock, for example, of their health, and make sure everything is…
Fifty-five years ago the very important volume Basic Christianity by John Stott was published. Since appearing in 1958 it has gone through countless reprints and…
For a few decades now there has been a fairly vigorous debate over what some critics of traditional biblical Christianity have called “lordship salvation”. Very…
There are those who claim that a Christian is one who merely accepts Christ as Saviour, but not as Lord. In Part One of this…
There are very few things which are more important than getting the issues of repentance and conversion right. The fact that we need to get…
Edenridge Press, 2011. There have been plenty of articles and book reviews of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. I penned a few myself. But this may…
When one’s sickness is severe, and one’s condition is terminal, then the need for radical measures is clearly called for. Any doctor knows that: the…
Paternoster, 2007. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Christianity is Christ, and what he did for us in his life, death and resurrection. Thus the…
Crossway, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Generally speaking the phrase ‘emerging church’ is not usually found in the same sentence containing such words…