It is time for Western Christians to develop a theology of suffering: I have often written on this theme, but when I did a quick…
Joining with suffering saints like Elisabeth Elliot: A decade ago I wrote a piece called “The Fellowship of the Burning Heart”. It referred to several…
This is another passage so often massacred by Christians: I really must retitle this series. Most of the passages I have looked at are not…
What are we to make of forced church closures during this time? Plenty of changes are happening with COVID-19. One of them is the forced…
The contrast between the real gospel and a false gospel could not be greater: The Apostle Paul told us what he thought about those who…
Does this verse mean Christians are exempt from Coronavirus? With everyone talking about the Coronavirus, many Christians have been appealing to this particular passage. In…
We must avoid both being hyper-critical of everything, and being accepting and undiscerning about everything. As I have said so many times over the years,…
How should we think of Hollywood and its constant mockery of the faith? When I recently saw trailers on the television for a new show…
Zondervan, 2019. A new book written by Benny Hinn’s nephew on the prosperity gospel is a must read. Most folks have heard of Benny Hinn,…
Everyone wants glory, but few want suffering. But the two are bound together: Hands up – who wants glory? Hands up – who wants suffering?…
“No cross, no crown” is how we referred to this matter in Part One. Throughout the Bible our present sufferings are tied in with our…
It goes without saying that over time Christians are meant to grow spiritually, experience progressive character development, and increasingly become more Christlike. Scripture is certainly…
Those who are Christians have been entrusted with the gospel. That is just what Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 2:4: “we speak as those approved…
In this series I have been looking at the biblical truths about God’s presence with his people as they suffer. Part One looked at the…
In Part One of this article I looked at the issue of suffering as found in the Old Testament, and the wonderful truth that God…
Everyone suffers. The question is, how do we cope with it? The Christian believes various things about suffering, including the wonderful truth that we are…
OK, these are certainly some rather large topics that I am attempting to cover in a very short article. But it follows on from a…
There is not much new under the sun as the writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us, and a basic knowledge of the past 2000 years of…
Avoiding unbiblical extremes and staying within the bounds of the data of Scripture is paramount for the Christian. I have been writing of late on…
It should go without saying that no Christian would want to be involved in magic – or at least most forms of it. Some things,…