Archive for 'January,2012'

Getting the gospel out…

Getting the gospel out…

A review of some courses that might help The gospel is God’s power to save people (Rom. 1:16), but how, when most won’t darken the door of a Sunday service, do we get unbelievers to engage [...]

The best preaching on earth

The best preaching on earth

Over the last few weeks I’ve listened to some great sermons: Alistair Begg on finding Christ in the book of Ruth, Tim Keller on the crossing of the Red Sea, James MacDonald on learning from and [...]

Family worship

Family worship

‘Religion was established first in families, and there the devil seeks to crush it… The family is the training ground of Church and State; and if children are not well instructed there, both will fail. Families [...]

Can we really believe the Old Testament?

Can we really believe the Old Testament?

Do you believe that Jonah was swallowed by a great fish? Do you believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were cast into a furnace and came out alive and unhurt? Was Daniel actually thrown into the [...]

Reaching rural Wales

Reaching rural Wales

As you travel through Wales, especially its beautiful countryside, you will notice, dotted on the hills round about, isolated farms, so remote, not only from each other, but from the rest of the community. The thought [...]

Surviving in a mad, bad world

Surviving in a mad, bad world

We live in a mad, as well as a bad, world. The pace of life is simply frenetic, and shows few if any signs of slowing down. One danger facing the Christian in this mad, bad [...]

A radical idea?

A radical idea?

It’s a radical idea, isn’t it – getting Christians to read the Bible? Perhaps you’ve seen the statistics of how few Christians read the Bible at all between one Sunday and the next. Yet people grow [...]

The centrality of scripture

The centrality of scripture

‘What pastures are to the beast, the nest for the birds, the stream for fish, the scriptures are for believing souls.’ So wrote Luther in his own inimitable way. Christianity is a religion of The Book. [...]