Most Protestants are not used to thinking about priests and especially about what makes a good or superior priest. And yet, the language of priesthood is all through this letter to the Hebrews to this point (1:3; 2:17-18; 3:1) and…
Last Sunday’s message was part 45 in our series through Hebrews. It is entitled The Unshakable Kingdom and is based on Hebrews 12:25-29. You can listen to or download it HERE.
In recent years, the commitment of the Free Church of Scotland to exclusive, unaccompanied psalm-singing in “formal” worship services has wavered. The issue, understandably, has divided an already fractured church. The church has taken the unusual step of calling a plenary…
Over at the Biologos, Mark Sprinkle has written an open letter challenging Al Mohler’s conclusions about their organization. However, Dr. Sprinkle’s letter is frustrating in it inaccuracy about what Mohler has actually written and said. But even more significant is…
I suspect the organisers of Lausanne would have no such problems with women bishops! The conspiracy of silence on Ruth Padilla’s exposition on Ephesians 2 at Lausanne is deafening. As far as I can see Eph 2 is not hard…
In the first six verses of this chapter, the writer to the Hebrews urges us to fix our attention on Jesus–to keep him in our eye and to hold and cling to him. One reason why we should “consider Jesus,”…
If you are discipling a newer (or even not so new) believer then I cannot recommend highly enough Stephen Smallman’s excellent book The Walk. Smallman wrote it for the very purpose of two people to work through together. It is…
The most postmodern of sins has to be hypocrisy – “being inauthentic,” if we want to use quasi-Satre categories. We are quick to recognize it in others and, like most sins, slow – painfully slow – to recognise (HT: Carl…
I love the art of Makato Fujimora. I was actually a bit surprised when I first saw his work and was immediately drawn to it. I am a lover of representational art. I also appreciate the work of the great…
