A musical query
I have not been really keeping up recently, but I was interested to read Leon’s musings on music in the church planting situation. Passing over a number of other stimulating threads, I should be interested to know the answers to…
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4 Additional Things I Have Learned While Church Planting
In our first installment, I highlighted six things I have learned while church planting. Here are four additional items for your consideration. They are in no particular order. 1. Music: At Crown and Joy, we classify our musical selections into…
Modern Opposition to Divine Blessedness [Part 3]
The doctrine of divine impassibility has been much discussed, and it deserves to be: it is crucial for the Christian church to be able to confess the right thing about the omnipotent God precisely at this point, at the foot…
Deeply Humiliated
We hate to be humiliated in any way. But our sin forfeits our right to honor and praise. Consider who we are: in ourselves, fully leprous in our souls and deserving of shame. But we crave praise, honor, and glory.…
Two Books on Scripture
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy and The Question of Canon are two very worthwhile books on different aspects of Scripture, the first doctrinal and the second historical. J. Merrick & Stephen M. Garrett. Gen. eds, Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy…
Living in Athens
A couple of times a month, as God enables us, the church which I serve attempts to proclaim the gospel in the centre of our town, preaching in the open air, handing out tract-invitations, and engaging in conversation with those…
Angst About Religious Liberty in America
The litigious assault on bakers, florists, and photographers who have convictions against serving same-sex wedding planners is a sad cause of much angst these days. Noticing this, Frank Bruni of the New York Times devoted his Jan 10 column to…
Doing and being
It is too easy to make our witness to Christ programmatic and mechanical. There is no doubt that some measure of order and organisation is often profitable. There are many right and proper endeavours that demand structure, planning and management…
The shame of the cross
The Apostle Paul talks about not being ashamed of the gospel (Romans 1:16). He also encourages his co-worker Timothy not to be ashamed of Jesus or of Paul himself, when he is in prison (2 Timothy 1:8). I’ve often wondered…
What on earth is a 100% Calvinist, TGC?
This interview at a Gospel Coalition website struck me as very odd. I suspect that the “Calvinism” these two gentlemen are referring to has very little to do with historic Reformed theology, and more to do with the fact that…