The Christian needs both brains and the Spirit to rightly understand Scripture: All Christians believe that God speaks to us through the Bible – not…
Some thoughts on the great J. R. R. Tolkien and his Christian impact: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was many things: an Oxford don, a poet,…
Here are 20 new books that you all should be aware of: My title should make it clear that at least three groups of people…
How does Christianity differ from all the other world religions? Although wildly ambitious and seemingly foolish to write on such a massive topic, with billions…
If you want to know of some recommended authors, here is my list of 70: OK, I may have three strikes going against me in…
What exactly do we mean when we stress the importance of ‘the priesthood of all believers’? One core teaching of the Reformation in general, and…
My title may be just a little bit misleading. What I really want to do in this piece is list the ten authors that have…
This is the second half of an article looking at various figures of speech employed in the Bible. I looked at five of the main…
Today is May the Fourth – and may it be with you! This date has now gone down in history as a commemoration of a…
When I consider some of my all-time favourite Christians of relatively recent times (men such as J. C. Ryle, Charles Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and J.…
At the very heart of Christian theology is the notion of the triune God, and the idea of the deity of Christ. Both these doctrines…
I recently wanted to link to some of my listings of good books on apologetics, atheism and the like, but I noticed that the last…
I have covered quite a bit of territory in the first three parts of this article. Now I seek to wrap things up, and offer…
Many believers would at least vaguely recognise this phrase. It of course comes from the Apostle’s Creed. But it has been the subject of much…
One common complaint made about God is that if he is so loving, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world. This…
OK, the next US Presidential election is not scheduled for another few years, but the Party that lost the unlosable election in 2016 is already…
Christianity is Christ, and when we get Christ wrong we get Christianity wrong. Anything as important as getting right who Jesus is and what he…
Five hundred years ago the posting of a number of theses by an Augustinian monk turned the world upside down. Plenty has been written of…
This is a tale of two groups – those who value truth and facts as they defend the institution of marriage, and those who merrily…
One of the most vital doctrines of the Christian faith, yet admittedly one of the most mysterious, is the doctrine of the Trinity. The Triune…