Archive for 'Christian Living'
Helping your children celebrate Easter
It’s mid-January as I write the snow is thick on the ground. No school today so the children in my street are out making snowmen, sledging and throwing snowballs. Yesterday, with the heavy snow forecast, and [...]
What is fellowship with God?
Christianity is history, rooted and grounded in solid historical fact. It is not a myth. But knowing God is not just a history lesson. Christianity has powerful and unique teachings or doctrines: God is one, but [...]
The casual Christian
To be casual today is usually regarded as a good thing; it is cool. To be ‘non-casual’ (stiff? formal? intense?) is not good. You need to chill. One of the first books I read as a [...]
Understanding our own culture
All of our churches, for better or for worse, are influenced by our culture. Yet when I read my Bible I find that the biggest cultural pull on the church is the local influence. Corinth was [...]
The changing face of racism
Racism is now back in the news. There have been recent widely reported incidents from the world of football, a game that has done more than any other to eradicate racist behavior. Players using racist language [...]
How is contemporary culture affecting women?
Can a conservative evangelical praise God for contemporary culture? At a time of increasing secularisation in every aspect of society, even to the point of governmental campaigns to ‘redefine’ marriage, none of us are ignorant of [...]
Valuing the elderly
On a recent camp we challenged the young people to arrange the leaders in order of age! For some of the leaders it was an encouraging experience, for others of us it wasn’t! We live in [...]
Eat, drink and be merry
One of the most significant winds of change to have swept across the landscape of Western society in recent times has been a change in attitude to work and recreation. A major contributing factor to this [...]
Wise up Christian girls of all ages!
One of the many encouraging features of twenty-first-century British evangelicalism has been the growth of women’s conventions. These conventions have been promoting models of biblical womanhood. They have also been demonstrations of evangelical unity as organising [...]
Telling your kids about love, marriage and sex
When your children see sex advertised everywhere, you might think it is the one subject to avoid. The problem with that conclusion is that if you, as a parent, avoid it, your children will still hear [...]
The Trinity and worship
I would personally rather sing of a 'latent' Christ in the Psalms God
The Trinity and worship
A very helpful article. I've been thinking much more about the Trinity
United we stand
It all depends on what you mean by 'biblical separation' ? !
Amazing and essential
Thank you. There are several good books currently on the Holy Trinity.
Robert Jermain Thomas: an inextinguishable light
Yes, there is much that we do not know, but if you read my book, I do