Both license and legalism are extremes to avoid: I often speak about getting the biblical balance right, and avoiding unhelpful and unbiblical extremes. But let…
When the diabolical values and beliefs of the world so penetrate and take over the values and beliefs of the church, you know that it…
Biblical truths must always be reaffirmed and re-stated for the simple reason that anti-biblical falsehoods and errors always keep emerging. Since Scriptural truths are constantly…
God does not change and his Word does not change. What we learn about God in the Old Testament is the same as what we…
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.…
The Bible is full of questions, and many of them are of utter significance to all of us. How we answer such questions will impact…
Biblical truth is vitally important and needs to be restated, reaffirmed and re-defended on a regular basis. This is partly so because biblical truth is…
There are plenty of things in life that may be worth visiting, but you really would not want to stay there for too long. When…
Generally speaking, in the Christian life right teaching (orthodoxy) goes closely together with right living (orthopraxis). When one gets into error in terms of doctrine…
Toward the end of his life the author of “Amazing Grace” and friend of William Wilberforce said this: “My memory is nearly gone; but I…
In my last article in this informal series, I mentioned that there are plenty more unhelpful and unbiblical things Christians say which are little more…
I am continually amazed at how so many Christians will simply run with whatever their favourite preacher or megachurch pastor runs with, instead of actually…
“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…
One of the biggest problems in the Christian church in the West today is that of antinomianism. The Greek word for law is nomos, and…
I was thinking about the grace of God again last night – always a good thing to be thinking about. I am painfully aware of…
One would have thought that a very basic, long-standing, and well known theological principle needs little or no defending and explaining. But regrettably it seems…
Here is a biblical truth you can bank on: any gospel which makes it easier for you to sin, and to feel OK about sinning,…
The gospel most evangelicals in the West preach today bears little resemblance to that found in the New Testament. Increasingly the very heart of the…