Sadly there has long been a temptation to resort to gimmicks to make the church “relevant” and appealing. This is especially true of so much…
OK, to save you scrambling for your dictionaries or your Greek phrase books let me spill the beans here: this term means ‘things indifferent’. In…
Infiltration is often more effective than outward assaults. If you can sneak into that which you are seeking to destroy, you can usually accomplish your…
Around six years ago Jerry Bridges penned an important volume entitled Respectable Sins. In it he rightly pointed out how most Christians think they are…
The Word of God is the gold standard for Christians. It is our source of truth, stamp of authority, and our moral compass. Without it…
It of course goes without saying that a staple of the Christian life is daily Bible reading, study and meditation. It is a no-brainer that…
It is Easter again, time to celebrate the most important event of human history: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This event is not…
If you are a Christian, some of you may have heard of the African-American believer, Dr Benjamin Carson. He is an amazing man with an…
Good news folks! For all those who love their sin and want complete Biblical justification for it, helpful publishers are now quite happy to produce…
It is not just believers who ponder things like heaven and hell – academics can and do as well. Consider one American academic who has…
Anyone who loves Jesus knows full well that the church today is nowhere near where it should be, and is in desperate need of a…
On this day in 1456 Johannes Gutenberg’s first Bible was reportedly published. Sometimes called the 42-line Bible, it seems to have been the first book…
Sometimes the contrast gets quite overwhelming. In this case, it involves reading two quite contrasting texts. On the one hand, we have press reports of…
The rise and rise of fundamentalist atheism, fundamentalist secularism, fundamentalist Islam, and other fundamentalisms which have declared war on Christianity continues unabated. This site regularly…
I am an evangelical. So let me for the moment confine my remarks to fellow evangelicals. If you are a non-evangelical, but want to read…
In Part One of this article I discussed the three main types of translations. They were: the word for word, or formal equivalence, versions; the…
In Amos 8:11 we read these frightening words: “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign LORD, ‘when I will send a famine through the land…
I have said elsewhere that if the emergent church with its emphasis on doubt, questioning everything, and suspicion about and hostility toward certainty would have…
While Christian paganism may seem to be a contradiction in terms, it sadly is not. Indeed, there are growing segments of the church which may…
There is no question that the church of Jesus Christ in Australia (and in much of the Western world) is not exactly in great shape.…