Press on!
“Let us also lay aside every weight…” (Hebrews 12:1) The letter to the Hebrews was written to the early church believers during a time of some pretty intense pressure. It was not easy to maintain faith in their hostile world.…
Sure Hope
Today is Anzac Day 2022 – 25th April is always a significant day for Australians as we remember those who have served our country – a remembrance that has been held ever since the devastating landing at Gallipoli in 2015. It…
Gospel detonated
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15). ‘You’re not crazy!’ is the name of a podcast on The Gospel Coalition site which Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry…
Descended to the Dead
I wrote last week about the line in the Apostles’ Creed: ‘Descended to the dead’ (or hell). I’ve since read an article on The Gospel Coalition site by Matt Emerson about the debate. Like I did, Emerson also refers to…
Busy
Kevin DeYoung has been a long-standing contributor to The Gospel Coalition website (see last post). But I did notice that he has set up his own blog site which is filled with articles and sermons and Christian discussion. Kevin is…
Gospel Coalition
I was browsing the web last night. I have a few go to Christian sites that I like to look at. Actually, as one browses the web there are hundreds and thousands, or rather, hundreds of millions, as we all…
The idle harpoonist
When I was about 10 years old I donated Herman Melville’s book ‘Moby Dick’ to my school. Each year there was a ‘Book week’ and the school hall would be filled with beautiful books – shiny, glistening, non-fiction, fiction, all…
Shut down the preacher
One more quote from H. Beecher Hicks Jnr’s Preaching through the Storm. (See previous entry). “The reason the society at large wants to silence the preacher may well be because the preacher is under orders to speak a word about morality.…
The Identity of Evil
Preaching through the Storm is a book by H. Beecher Hicks Jnr which I stumbled across a few decades ago. It’s based around a series of sermons through times of crisis and there were some parts that were so refreshing when…
The Divine Dance of Glory
Graham Cole has this to say about the glory of God in the Trinity: “In his famous high priestly prayer of John 17 Jesus prays to the Father, ‘I have brought you glory on earth’ (v 4), and, ‘Father, glorify…