HarperOne, 2011. You can always tell when someone is losing the plot biblically speaking. Whenever the mainstream media starts lapping up what you have to…
There are two quite wrong ways to come to terms with the biblical teaching on the eternal punishment of the lost. One is annihilationism, which…
Now that I have just upset the apple cart with a recent article on the justice of God, I might as well go the whole…
It is a bit risky to speak about God’s justice today, and here I especially have in mind talking to other believers about it. We…
At around 1am in the morning I was taking a brief stroll through the Internet, checking out the new day’s headlines. Alas, this exercise brought…
I have written about holiness before, and I have written about J.C. Ryle before, but so impressed am I about the man and his writings,…
It took me less than five seconds to decide whether or not to keep a flyer I found in my mailbox. The 12-pager came from…
Hope springs eternal – or so we are told. So each Christmas I have a fresh dash of hope, especially when it comes to the…
One of the areas in which Christians can and do disagree – often intensely – is in the broad area of eschatology. This is simply…
Two women who had abortions. Two recent public discussions of these abortions. Two quite different takes on them. The same life-ending procedure, but two very…
This is a biblical and theological question which may not be as easily answered as might be expected. The short reply is this: Yes, on…
We have a pro-death atheist running our country, a homosexual secular humanist second in command, and now we have sworn in our first Muslim MP…
Zondervan, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Atheist Christopher Hitchens has just released his memoirs, which has generated a lot of interest. His brother…
I was recently speaking and teaching interstate at some churches and Christian groups. A number of these groups, I was informed, had actually broken away…
Once when George Whitefield was visiting New England he said, “The reason why congregations have been so dead is because dead men preach to them.”…
Today I was reading the very familiar parable of the sower which Jesus gave (Matthew 13:1-23 = Mark 4:1-20; Luke 8:5-15). Of course as many…
Two and a half millennia ago the prophet Isaiah uttered these powerful words: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put…
One of the saddest and most shattering passages in the whole of the Bible is Psalm 137:1-4: “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and…
Another day, another outburst from God-hater Catherine Deveny. The Age atheist is at it again, with yet another juvenile attack on God. Her arrogance and…