Last month my church ran an evangelism course in the Sunday evening meetings called Just Walk Across the Room. For the most part, the course and accompanying book contains useful advice on getting to know people, discovering their stories and sharing your faith with them naturally. It does have some weaknesses though. For one thing, […]
Yesterday was Trinity Sunday, and since I’ve recently been doing a lot of thinking trying to understand the trinity better, I agreed to do a short talk on trinity for the evening communion service in church at Mack. So with some trepidition at tackling such a topic as trinity, but with plenty of prayer, and […]
A group of American Evangelical Christians have published An Evangelical Manifesto, which makes excellent reading. It seeks to express what it means to be Evangelical, rescuing it from both conservative fundamentalism and liberal revisionism. I’ve often wondered whether the word “evangelical” has gone the way of “fundamentalist”, with the popular derogatory meaning of “right-wing bigot” […]
I’ve been discussing this question recently on Ship of Fools, and also just read a very good blog post on the subject on the Christ the Truth blog. A popular illustration is a group of blind people all trying to describe an elephant – one feels its trunk and thinks it’s a snake, one feels […]
I’m currently reading Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. He writes in his introduction of 1559 that “it has been my purpose in this labour to prepare and instruct candidates in sacred theology for the reading of the divine Word, in order that they may be able both to have easy access to it and […]
UCCF: The Christian Unions has launched Theology Network, its new theology website, aiming to provide high-quality theological resources in the same way that Bethinking provides apologetics resources. Naturally there’s a fair bit of overlap, and a lot of the content was already available from Bethinking and websites like the European Leadership Forum Resources site and […]
I just discovered a website that claims to “offer the finest in Christian evangelical teaching to the world, for free, forever”. It’s got four main categories by audience: non-Christians interested in finding out about the Christian faith, new Christians just starting in the faith, the “man in the pew” who wants to learn more, and […]
I’ve been thinking about this question, which I saw posed on the Ship of Fools forums. The short answer is: “It can be, but needn’t be”. The difference between Christianity and Buddhism, as I understand it, is that Buddhism teaches detachment, while Christianity teaches the right ordering of our attachments, starting with God. Loving God […]
Here’s the translation of the first half of the sermon I preached in Welsh in the Capel Isa and Capel Soar in Nefyn. We decided to do the same service at both chapels on both the first and second Sunday. Since we wanted to talk about what we were doing at that point in the […]
One last post on the PSA debate, since I promised I’d write this a while ago. As I discussed before, there’s a lot of controversy at the moment in Christian circles about Penal Substitutionary Atonement – essentially, the idea that Jesus died on the cross to take the punishment for our sins to bring us […]
