Book Review- The Jesus Who Never Lived: Exposing False Christs and Finding the Real Jesus

Sometimes apologetics books can be dry and hard to read. Agreed? It takes one to have a keen interest in the subject at hand to stimulate the mind to keep flicking those pages, absorbing the content of said pages as you do so. Sometimes the author is very intellectual and the information given us very [...]

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1. Exposing Mormon Claims and their prophet Joseph Smith

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To the Non-Religious, Fed up with Christianity

Umpteen times I have come across comments and posts by people proclaiming their disdain and sheer irritation with Christianity. I have also read and heard remarks by Christians siding with the Non-Christians, stating that they too are fed up with radical fundamentalism, the kind who run around preaching hell, fire and brimstone at every person [...]

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How to identify a Cult- It’s simple really………..

For the past few years I have looked at cults and different religions with a view of trying to understand them to better equip me in my witnessing and communication of the Christian Faith. I found, over the years, it is quite impossible to know everything about all religions or even a minority of them. While [...]

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10 questions for a “not-yet-believer”

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the universe?
» Learn more about the universe / origin of life / origin of species / origin of mankind
How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of Biblical stories, places, and people?
» In what ways have archaeological discoveries verified it?
» Bible archaeology [...]

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Monergism.com’s monthly Focus- Evangelism

Evangelism
“Evangelism and theology for the most part go separate ways, and the result is great loss for both. When theology is not held on course by the demands of evangelistic communication, it grows abstract and speculative, wayward in method, theoretical in interest and irresponsible in stance. When evangelism is not fertilized, fed and controlled by [...]

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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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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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The Generation that the Church is in danger of failing………..

When Jesus asks Peter to “feed my lambs” after he’s been resurrected (John 21:15), he’s not talking about engaging them in a Bible study. Very few people were ever able to read back then, and there were very few copies of Scripture.
When Jesus told Peter (who is a type of medieval Everyman – a [...]

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Mark Driscoll- Emergent Church critque!! Great!!

Pastor Mark Driscoll, of Mars Hill Church Seattle, addressed the students/pastors at the Convergent Conference of the Southeastern Baptist Convention in September 2007, regarding the Emergent church. For quite some time now I have been wary of the Emergent church for more reasons than one. I have friends who would read and listen to a [...]

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My thought for today……..

“A prositute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick,unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. Through sobs and tears, she told me she had been renting out her daughter – two years old!-to men interested in kinky sex. She made more renting out her daughter for an hour than she could earn her [...]

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Thomas a Kempis said……

“What can the world offer you without Jesus? To be without Jesus is hell most grievous , to be with Jesus is to know the sweetness of heaven. If Jesus is with you , no enemy can harm you. Whoever finds Jesus , finds a rich treasure , and a good above every good. He [...]

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Our Culture; What’s Left Of It- Theodore Dalrymple

I have recently developed an interest in gaining an understanding of why society is the way it is today. I’ve always found history fascinating, and whilst my bone-idleness during school was not an accurate reflection of this (a C in History and an E in Ancient History are not exactly grades that give an indication [...]

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J.C. Ryle said……

 “The consequences of this widespread dislike to dogma are very serious in the present day. Whether we like to allow it or not, it is an epidemic which is just now doing great harm, especially among young people. It creates, fosters, and keeps up an immense amount of instability in religion. It produces what I [...]

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The Holiness of God

              
The Holiness of God is something the 21st Century world just doesn’t get. In fact, I think using the phrase ‘the 21st Century’ is too broad a generalisation. I would change that to 21st Century contemporary western Christianity. Many Christians in China or Africa for instance totally get it. Their zeal for the Lord [...]

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Monthly Focus- Doctrine of Election

Two weeks ago I returned to my old University in England to visit some of my friends who are still in attendance and to speak at the Christian Union I attended whilst I was there. It was great to receive this invite, and a real privilege to be able to spend a lot of time [...]

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Steve Camp’s Blog- Check it out

The Below articles are taken from Steve Camps’ blog Camp On This and I just HAD to put all three on. Some wonder why I blog, and such articles as those below answer that question. I don’t blog to build a reputation or seek the applause of men. Rather I blog because it keeps me sharp. It [...]

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J.C. Ryle said it well……..

     “It may be that a certain profession of religion has become so fashionable and comparatively easy in the present age that the streams which were once narrow and deep have become wide and shallow, and what we have gained in outward show we have lost in quality. It may be that the vast increase [...]

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Paul Washer said……..

 
“In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one’s hand, walk an aisle, or pray a “sinner’s prayer.” As a result, the majority of Americans (read Westerners) believe that they’ve been “born again” (i.e., regenerated) even though their thoughts, words, and deeds [...]

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Here comes Muslim Europe

Further to my post yesterday by Voddie Baucham in relation to Islam, I thought this article was quite interesting and worth sharing. Before I begin though let’s establish that this is not “hate” blogging. In no way, shape or form should hate blogging be tolerated. However, a presentation of the geographical and demographical landscape of Europe is somewhat [...]

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A.W. Tozer- The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing

 ”The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things……….The world said, ‘Abraham is rich,’ but the aged patriarch only smiled. He could not explain it, but he knew that he owned nothing, that his real treasures were inward and eternal. There can be no [...]

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The Islamisation of Europe

I recently received a copy of the Barnabus Fund magazine which keeps me up-to-date with the persecuted church. Within this edition there was an article on the Islamisation of Europe. I plan to add to this post in due course with more on what the article had to say, but for the meantime I thought [...]

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Voddie Baucham- Is Christianity a Religion?

   
There is a common mantra that has been around for a while, but which seems to be picking up steam.  It goes like this:  “Christianity is not a religion; it’s a relationship.”  We’ve all heard it before.  However, how many of us have bothered to evaluate this ubiquitous saying? I believe we must do just [...]

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TWENTY-THREE GREAT SINS OF EVANGELICALISM–Why We Must Pray For A Reformation Again.

TWENTY-THREE GREAT SINS OF EVANGELICALISM–Why We Must Pray For A Reformation Again.
Many Christians today are calling for revival. They are mistaken to do so. Revival is the imbuing of what already exists with new life. In the past, Evangelical Christianity has experienced renewed vigor from the Holy Spirit in great moves of God many call [...]

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Porn Again Christian- Mark Driscoll

Some people like him, so people don’t. Whatever your stance on Mark Driscoll you cannot deny that God is using him for the good. My own stance on Mark Driscoll is one of respect and admiration without straying into idol worshipping him. He is a great communicator, he’s honest, and his theology is fine by [...]

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John Macarthur opens up his Sermon Vault!!!!

  Yes indeed he has and its about time to! My computer is quickly running out of space with all those sermons I’ve downloaded of his! Folks get over to www.gty.org and check out the entire sermon list. I am sure you will find a sermon on whatever it is you are looking for!
It is [...]

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5 Trends in the Church Today- D.A. Carson

 
1. It is important to observe contradictory trends.
Interestingly, Don encouraged us to recognize the good things in our current culture. He said we have a lot more good commentaries available to us than we did fifty years ago. Yet, mainline churches have fewer conversions than ever before. This is a contradictory trend, according to Carson.
 I understand [...]

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Puritan Corner- Thomas Watson

“The Godly man loves the threatening part of the Word. The Scripture is like the Garden of Eden: as it has a tree of life in it, so it has a flaming sword as its gates. This is the threatening of the Word. It flashes fire in the face of every person who goes on [...]

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Who Needs A Creed?…for those who think Creeds are useless (the “No Creed but Christ idea)

Who Needs A Creed?
Article by Mark Johnston  April 2008

When I was at Primary School in the British state school system many moons ago, it was still the norm not only to teach pupils the Apostles’ Creed, but also to have them recite it in class. Looking back on that experience brings many thoughts to mind.
On the [...]

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Me, myself, and iPhone

Technology can be an instrument for gratitude or for idolatry (Vern S. Poythress)
Ten years ago a few visionaries were predicting the era of “ubiquitous” computing, when all kinds of appliances would contain computerized links to the rest of the world. Now it is upon us, in the form of cell phones.A capable cell phone today [...]

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