OK, it is the New Year, so no sense in beating around the bush. I have resolved to keep promoting truth in 2014, regardless of…
One of the most well-known and well-loved verses in Scripture is John 3:16. This passage is shared and appealed to by so many, and rightly…
There are all kinds of Christians proclaiming all kinds of gospels. But there is a very easy test as to whether or not that which…
OK, this may seem like an odd combination of topics for one article. But there is a reason for it. As you may know, on…
The timing was impeccable really. I had just finished watching a television segment about the lavish demands of the super rich celebs and entertainers on…
It goes without saying that suffering is a major part of life. No one denies this. Yet there are some Christians and some theologies which…
It would seem pretty obvious that when a major Christian calendar event comes around, then Christian leaders of all people should be quite happy to…
There are many ways in which the New Testament describes those who are not true Christians and that which is not the true gospel. In…
Increasingly in the Western world the ability to preach the gospel is being banned or greatly restricted. The irony of course is that it was…
For almost as long as it has been around the Christian church has been up to its ears in helping the poor and needy, and…
As I am reading through the book of Acts right now I am again struck at how markedly different the gospel the first Christians preached…
As is becoming increasingly common, many people calling themselves Christians manage to mangle the gospel, show how poorly we tend to think nowadays, and fall…
There are so many false and distorted pictures of Jesus around, and so much muddled thinking about who he is and what he did, that…
In Part One of this article I wrote that Jesus is far different when we read the Gospels as if for the first time than…
At the very heart of the gospel is the fact that Jesus Christ died on a cross in our place for our sins, so that…
There are always plenty of twisted teachings and dodgy doctrines circulating in our churches. One is known as the Prosperity Gospel or the Health and…
A common argument made by pacifists and/or those who really do not know their Bibles very well is that all killing is wrong because it…
The proclamation of the gospel can never take place apart from the surrounding culture. Indeed, it is done in some sort of culture all the…
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…