As we come to the end of the year and stand ready to mark the beginning of another, it is good to remember that we mark time because time is intrinsically measurable, intrinsically finite. Not only is time itself finite,…
I don’t really care for Resolutions, mainly because I rarely keep them. Personally, I just want to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ day by day, depending especially on the ordinary means of grace to accomplish this purpose.…
In parts 1-4, I briefly highlighted some of my thoughts regarding liturgy, music, and the inclusion of more minorities (or more specifically, African-Americans) in our churches. I am going to take a slight detour in this fifth segment, a detour…
Given what World Magazine has called a “major, well-funded push” to promote the acceptance of evolution among evangelical Christians, the case must be persuasively made against the compatibility of evolution and the Bible. In answer to this pro-evolutionary stance, I…
Noah’s first deed upon exiting the ark — at least as recorded in Scripture — was to build an altar and offer unto God sacrifices from the “clean” animals and birds which had accompanied him and his family on his…
“Mark, it’s a sad fact, but books on our Lord don’t sell well” – Anonymous. Blog posts on Jesus don’t do well, either, if you are judging a blog post by stats. But what about books and posts on Christ’s…
[I probably do not need to inform regular readers of this blog that Christmas is not my favourite season. Nevertheless, I try to take the opportunity to use the occasion. Recently, preaching from Luke 1, I was disappointed with the…
Again, my mailbox had another letter from what I am sure is a faithful and committed Christian urging me to not wish you or anyone else a merry Christmas. I can’t count the number of copies of this letter from…
I must thank Professor McCall for his full and hearty (c.2000 word) response to what he (presumably ironically) calls my “essay” (a 500 word blogpost) on Wesley and Pelagius. Mark Jones has urged me to be brief, so even though…
I. Introduction I have always found Lee Gatiss to be a fine historian, so I was disappointed to see his claims in the recent “Wesley and Pelagius“. He points out that Pelagius has been universally reviled and rejected in orthodox…
