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Paul: ‘inspired’? What does that mean?
(Sent by a friend: in what sense was Paul ‘inspired’ differently from, say, you or myself? Challenging article). What, or Who, do I seek from Paul? All documents have a context which shapes how we read them. We read a scientific paper with different eyes and expectations from those we hold for a newspaper article […]
25 LISTS OF EVERYTHING INTERESTING/IMPORTANT
Dear friends I’m making 25 lists of 25 important/memorable/helpful items/ideas. Anything missing? We’ll have to factor it in to one of these (watch this article): 25 LISTS OF 25  1 MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE WHO’VE EVER LIVED 2 MOST MEMORABLE PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE 3 GREATEST CHRISTIAN HYMNS/SONGS 4 GREATEST SERMONS EVER PREACHED 5 GREATEST […]
Miracles and the Virgin Birth etc.
Excerpt from an interesting Facebook thread: • Daniel – That Jesus lived is beyond question. That he was raised from the dead has a lot of compelling arguments to defend it. So, if we walk backward from this through the texts of the New Testament, it doesn’t make it infallible, but it does allow the […]
Coping with Grief (John Claypool)
John Claypool “Hopeful Coping with Grief” December 1 , 2002 Biography Dr. John Claypool is rector emeritus of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and theologian-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. John is the author of many books and is one of America’s great preachers. ~~ “Hopeful Coping with Grief” At least […]
HOW ONE MUSLIM BECAME A CHRISTIAN…
Note from Rowland Croucher, December 2011: Here is a compelling story of one person’s journey from Islam to Christianity. He writes: ‘After I told my father I was a believer in Jesus Christ as Lord, he immediately disowned me. I never saw him again, until three days before his death in 1999…’ [seventeen years later] […]
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE: six articles (and more)
[Corrected, slightly amended, 24/4/2017) “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (H L Mencken) One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. (Victor Hugo) Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler). (Sad, Arthur?). John Maynard Keynes: “When […]
Homosexuality & Divorce: why not treat them the same?
Dr. Smedes, a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, was a former ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and the author of a dozen bestselling Christian books including To Forgive and Forget and All Things Made New. LIKE THE WIDENESS OF THE SEA? Lewis B. Smedes I remember the first time that I watched […]
Philip Yancey’s Second-best Book
Philip Yancey, What Good is God? On the Road with Stories of Grace, H&S, 2010. Anyone who reads Christian books knows Philip Yancey. In his 20+ publications this ‘Progressive Evangelical’ popular writer is renowned for his stories, excellent research, readability, and global appeal. This one’s more autobiographical than most. Eg.: ‘I should mention that on personality tests […]
Did “Officials” in the New Testament Church receive a Salary?
Something we used to debate about in the Brethren Assemblies I grew up in was whether the early Christian leaders received a ‘stipend’. When the New English Bible translation came out (my late teens) there was this astonishing version of  1 Tim 5:17: ‘Elders who do well as leaders should be reckoned worthy of a […]
Sexuality & Scripture
Addressing Bible passages used to condemn Same-Sex attracted people Many people condemn those who are same-sex attracted based on Hebrew and Christian scripture that they have not studied or sometimes never read. Here we will give a brief outline of the scriptures that people assume refer to homosexuality. We do not claim it is comprehensive, […]
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