It is necessary to briefly enumerate the specific failures of the modern evangelical Church and to point out that only a THEONOMIC worldview provides the necessary Christian worldview required by humble-minded saints (see Ps 16:3) to RECONSTRUCT civilisation (i.e. promote full-orbed salvation) to the glory of God in principled obedience to Jesus’ Great Commission (Matt […]
“Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would have none of my counsel and despised my every rebuke. Therefore, they shall eat the fruit of their […]
St Paul’s letter to the Romans addresses very practical application of the first eleven chapters in chapter 12. There we read, ‘For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has […]
Alas, we have failed to apply the Law of God to the most obvious & important area of human life – the public worship of God! The neglect of psalm singing partially accounts for the Churches’ loss of a vital kingdom-centred perspective among Christians today. In the psalms, God’s program in history is celebrated. By […]
We should ever remember Henry Van Til’s comment that the culture is the Church’s ‘report card’ – i.e., a measure of how well the Church has been doing in its endeavour to be salt and light (Matt 5: 13-16). Undoubtedly, a key trend in in recent decades has been the gradual erosion of masculinity within […]
This generation of Church leaders cannot see the wood for the trees. They are to be indicted with Jesus’ cutting remarks: “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! […]
…Against the Contemporary Evangelical Churches. In its original design these scribblings were modelled on Martin Luther’s famous Ninety Five Theses pinned to the cathedral door in Wittenberg in 1517. I sought to identify a couple of dozen indictments each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. Some work better than others – I hope […]
Electronic version of Repent-UK booklet is available here. When all that’s said and all that’s done beneath the rays of winter sun, God’s solemn voice to us is clear like distant echoes of a drum. It tells us why the things we see around us are so patently Besmirched by ruined hopes and dreams and […]
Do not press me, O my friend,Do not try to change my mind,Where you walk I’ll follow steadfast in my stride;To the left or to the right,I will keep you in my sight,Where you lodge every day I will reside. Your people will be my people!Your God will be my God! When you breathe your […]