Means and Ends
So, as we’ve seen, God does not treat the world as a tool to be used. He’s not in the whole creation-salvation thing for what He can get out of it. He’s in it in order to pour Himself out. This is...
View ArticleMy Favourite Three Preachers: Paul Blackham
I don’t think I’d ever heard preaching until I heard Paul Blackham. I’d heard a thousand exhortations. I’d heard hundreds of expositions. I’d heard autobiographical apologies and inspirational tales...
View ArticleMy Favourite Three Preachers: Mike Reeves
Having appreciated Paul Blackham’s Christ-centredness we are led inevitably to the Trinitarian riches of Mike Reeves. Here’s a man obsessed with Christ who simply loves his Father in the infectious joy...
View ArticleMy Three Favourite Preachers: Steve Levy
We all affirm that God speaks in preaching. For Steve Levy, it oozes out of every pore. His opening prayer is a plea: “Father, please talk to us!” His introduction is a plea: “I want everyone to...
View ArticleA brief reflection on my trip to Africa
“Who here has never heard teaching on the Trinity before?” My translator asked the question of our audience after my first session. In a room of 60 Malawian overseers, about 50 hands went up. Each of...
View ArticleLearning Biblical Languages [repost]
I am not at all naturally inclined to study languages myself so I’m not writing as a language buff. But I think “correctly handling the word of truth” means a certain level of knowledge about the way...
View ArticleOde to an Evangelical Sage
The tune for ‘Praise My Soul’ works O thou brain — exalted, senior, Holding forth from pulpit’s throne. Feed us with thy academia, Meted out in monotone. ‘We could never, ‘We could never, ‘Plumb such...
View ArticleNot Nature and Super-Nature – Old Creation and New Creation
Maybe it’s been since the Enlightenment and/or maybe it’s come through Aquinas with his Aristotelian nature/grace divide, but either way… Today we tend to imagine the interaction of nature and...
View ArticleFaithfulness or Fruitfulness?
It’s a question commonly posed among Christian ministers: Am I called more to faithfulness or fruitfulness? When you realise that there can be great “ministry successes” based on “secret and shameful...
View ArticleAngry Evangelism
I’ve come across far too many angry evangelists for this to be a coincidence. Out we go, door-knocking, flyering a uni campus or getting into conversations on the streets. (I’m a believer in first...
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