The Reality of Spiritual Warfare

I haven’t posted anything new on here for around a week now simply because I just needed to take a break over Christmas and gather my thoughts and wrestle with a few things I have been struggling with of late. My mind wasn’t right to be posting here as the posts probably would have been [...]

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Book Review- A Handful of Pebbles: Theological Liberalism and The Church

“At first sight the word ‘liberalism’ doesn’t seem threatening in any way. Quite the reverse, it is often associated with ideas like ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘generosity of spirit’. However there is something qutie sinister about ‘theological liberalism’; although not a well-defined term, it usually refers to a belief system which rejects the orthodox view of [...]

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John Macarthur- Tolerant Intolerance

“Post-modernism’s veneration of tolerance is its most obvious feature. But the version of “tolerance” peddled by post-modernists is actually a twisted and dangerous corruption of true virtue.
Incidentally, tolerance is never mentioned in the Bible as a virtue, except in the sense of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering (cf. Ephesians 4:2.) In fact, the contemporary notion of [...]

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Voddie Baucham said…………

“Our children are not falling away [from the Christian faith] because the church is doing a poor job—although that is undoubtedly a factor. Our children are falling away because we are asking the church to do what God designed the family to accomplish. Discipleship and multi-generational faithfulness begins and ends at home. At best, the [...]

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C.S.Lewis said……..

 ”If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this”
“A moderate religion is as good for us [...]

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Prepared for the Slaughter- An Article about Discernment and all that……

As history has shown, it is a common tactic for the oppressing force to gain control of a nation by seizing the means by which individuals might defend themselves. Once the citizenry are disarmed, it is a relatively easy matter to exert complete tyrannical control. It seems to me that the same principal holds true [...]

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Martin Luther said….

WHY GOD PLACES CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD
“God placed His church in the midst of the world, among countless external activities and callings, not in order that Christians should become monks but so that they may live in fellowship and that our works and the exercises of our faith may become known among men. For human [...]

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Theological ‘Term to Learn’

Antinomianism
The word comes from the Greek anti, against, and nomos, law. It is the unbiblical practice of living without regard to the righteousness of God, using God’s grace as a license to sin, and trusting grace to cleanse of sin. In other words, since grace is infinite and we are saved [...]

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The Shack…… just what is all the fuss about?? A review of the Shack over on Resurgence.com

There’s no doubt about it- The Shack has beena phenomenal success. By February 2008, the bookhad sold over 200,000 copies, with a marketing budget of about $200. But three months later, ayear after its release, it had sold over 700,000 copies. By the time you read this it will have soldover a million, and that [...]

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Some News stories in brief…….

Bullying Affects Young People’s Belief’s
A recent Beatbullying report noted that there is a high number of young people who say they believe in a God – 80 percent. Sadly however, the report’s findings claim that bullying makes them “ashamed of their religion or makes them question their faith.” But I also wonder what happens as [...]

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From Hamas to Christ- The Testimony of a Hamas Leader’s son

 

Converted from Islam to Jesus – A Testimony of a former friend of Hamas

 

   

Masab, son of Palestinian West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their [...]

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Give Time to Your Wife

The apostle Peter writes,
Husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. (1 Peter 3:7)
This is strange at first glance. How does caring for your wife connect [...]

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Making Communities of Grace

 

I came across this photo recently and it struck me; we often undermine the power of close fellowship. Serving in Iraq these soldiers join together to pray to Jesus. It brought a tear to my eye as I pondered the contrast between the chaos of war and the peace that comes with knowing the Lord Jesus [...]

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Upcoming Book reviews- ‘Doing’ Church in the 21st Century. What’s right and what’s wrong?

Within the next few weeks, God willing, I will be posting a series of reviews on the above books. As you can see all of the books deal with contemporary issues pertaining to the church. I’m sure I am not going to agree with everything that is said in some of them but I’m confident [...]

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