I got into a twitter conversation this afternoon on the subject of whether God hates sinners. The conversation was prompted by this Mark Driscoll video. Now, what do we make of that? There are a number of verses in Scripture that seem to indicate that God does hate sin and sinners. For example, Psalm 5:5 [...]
This is one of the best explanations of election that gets round the canard of “violating free will”. You’ll either love this or hate it.
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And I think that resolves the “what happened to dinosaurs” question as well!
I’m genetically biased, but I (and Gayle) think this is the best exegesis of “cleaving” in Genesis 1 that I’ve ever read. Finally, whether we are young or old, men or women, we can all take great comfort in the fact that Jesus has cleaved completely to us as Christians. He will never forsake the [...]
Have just discovered the Popology YouTube channel. This is one of the gems from it. I think this is spot on. Part of “sitting in the dust” is the understanding that you have no idea how long you’ll be assuming the lotus position for, but having the trust that at some point you’ll stretch your [...]
Reuben is obviously destined for the pulpit…
Just read these two interesting blog pieces. Firstly Bishop Alan Wilson Pentecost does raise in acute form the question of what we really believe Christianity is. It burst on the world as a process of incarnation, God bursting out of the limits of all preconceived thought about him, and starting again. and then Bishop Nick [...]
In response to a question from one of “my flock”, here’s an email I’ve just composed trying to get to grips with the different Gospel accounts. Your comments are welcome! Right…. This one of those cases where the same story is told in different ways, and in some places two narratives have been combined into [...]
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This morning’s readings gave us another example from Genesis of how Christ and the truth of what he achieved on the cross is already being laid out for us in Torah. Our small staff group reading and praying together have already seen the promise of Messiah in Genesis 3, Melchizedek (who is the one without [...]
Back in the summer I began a series examining the Biblical passages around homosexual behaviour with a view to approaching the texts afresh to explore whether some of theology that I currently have was in any sense assumptive. You can read the first four parts of this series by clicking the links on the right [...]
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