Of all these indictments, this one is the most obvious. Any familiarity with the Scriptures ought to convince a fair-minded reader that God is sovereign in His creation and will not suffer the outcome of history to be marked by defeat. The entire redemptive narrative is charged with an optimistic anticipation of Christ’s victory in […]
What makes this project a little difficult is seeing the array of indictments laid out alphabetically in front of me and, a bit like the mosquito in the nudist colony, pondering which one to address next! We might well wonder how we got to such a situation. In my own personal pilgrimage over forty years […]
This indictment manifests itself in various ways, but essentially the charge here is that contemporary Christianity refuses to grow up! It settles for a form of Christianity that is puerile and simplistic. Christian bookshops (where they still exist!) are full of shallow theology significantly adrift from the great heritage of Christian scholarship that Christ’s true […]
In Hosea Ch 4 God indicts His OT Church for (i) its ignorance of God – no truth or mercy (v1) and (ii) its vulnerability to death/destruction for their lack of knowledge (v6). I want to lay the same charge at modern evangelicals. I want to do so on three fronts: First, anyone philosophically astute […]
We completed the previous thesis with Ps 19:7-11. The challenge was to consider whether the psalmist’s description of his heart response to daily Bible reading matches our own. Our contention is that progressive knowledge of Scripture ought to be so invigorating that we may easily endorse the psalmist’s judgement – i.e. more to be desired […]
Marcionism is an ancient heresy dating from around AD100. It essentially seeks to pit the God of the OT against the God of the NT. As with so many theological controversies the root problem represents a failure to properly comprehend the right relationship between God’s old covenant dealings with Israel and His new covenant project […]
“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.” (Col 1:16) Dr Van Til left few stones unturned in his life-long endeavour to expound a Biblical view of […]
By this I mean to say that it is run by ‘oligarchs’: i.e., inordinately powerful small groups which operate as ‘celebrity pastors.’ In Matthew 11:26 Jesus commented on the crowds that came out to encounter His ministry. He was moved with compassion. Why? ‘Because they were (i) weary, (ii) scattered and (iii) like sheep without […]
Christian faith has been privatised. Just how this occurred would make for an interesting sociological study, but that it has happened is indisputable. Britain has been a ‘Christian’ nation for centuries. The prevailing worldview has been Christianity with either the Papal Church exercising public authority (for a thousand years or so) or else the Bible […]
At the risk of repetition, I wish to address head on the proposition that the contemporary evangelical Church is culturally quiet – i.e. it is unwilling to address cultural trends either positively or negatively. In short, it unlike ‘the children of Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel ought to do’ (1Chr […]
A new Psalter for the 21st Century. The Psalms represent the Bible's own library of songs specifically written to be sung as part of private and corporate worship. It is my sincere prayer and desire that this new collection of psalms might serve to refresh, restore, challenge, encourage and edify Christians of all lands, cultures and backgrounds.
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