A Church Is a Dangerous Place to Be
A Church Is a Dangerous Place to Be Church – A Safe, Welcoming, and Casual Place?: A big stage with smoke machines and flashing spotlights, emotional music and songs, a man wearing jeans and a shirt with tattoos…
Tag Creeds and Confessions
Confessing Christianity: Yesterday’s reformation for today’s reformation
The word ‘confessing’, I confess, is a little bit vague. We use the word when we are admitting that we could have done better, or when owning that we’ve actually done wrong. In places where a life dedicated to Christ…
Confessing Christianity: Yesterday’s reformation for today’s reformation
The word ‘confessing’, I confess, is a little bit vague. We use the word when we are admitting that we could have done better, or when owning that we’ve actually done wrong. In places where a life dedicated to Christ…
Biblical proportion and balance
The primary service which Systematic Theology performs for the preacher is to provide him with his message. But that’s not all. It should also give his message biblical proportion and balance. After all, it is only too easy to ride…
Biblical proportion and balance
The primary service which Systematic Theology performs for the preacher is to provide him with his message. But that’s not all. It should also give his message biblical proportion and balance. After all, it is only too easy to ride…
Resurrection and Restoration
As we come to the last of our studies in the Apostles’ Creed, we cannot help but be struck by the way it ends: I believe ‘…in the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting’. Given the brevity of…
Resurrection and Restoration
As we come to the last of our studies in the Apostles’ Creed, we cannot help but be struck by the way it ends: I believe ‘…in the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting’. Given the brevity of…
Glorious Body, Radiant Bride
There are few things that are more precious to Christ and yet more neglected by his people than the church and what the Bible has to say about it. It is his body and bride and he shed his blood…
Jesus Christ: Risen, Ascended, and Enthroned
If I remember correctly, I began my last article in this series on the Apostles’ Creed by saying, ‘There is nothing more central to the Christian message than the cross of Christ’. That is indeed the case; but it is…
Jesus Christ: Risen, Ascended, and Enthroned
If I remember correctly, I began my last article in this series on the Apostles’ Creed by saying, ‘There is nothing more central to the Christian message than the cross of Christ’. That is indeed the case; but it is…