I appreciate that that's a big claim (it's somewhat reduced and relativised by the fact that we're talking about 'me' - who really cares about what I've learned...), and I don't want to minimise all the other things I've had to learn (and continue to learn) but the reality is that they flow from thi...

This morning I had the priviledge of spending some time coaching one of the younger guys at our church who is preaching next Sunday. I love that guys like him get the opportunity to serve in this way. And I feel very priviledged to have been in the position of offering some help. I suggested that, h...

Recently a clashed views with Steve Timmis's blog on "parachurch" at Resurgence, today I just want to say a loud Amen to his post on theology: "...if evangelical theology is the truth about God in Christ, then all Christians are theologians in every sense that matters...[doctrines are to be] faced u...

Tim Keller on The Biblical Pastor (and his idols!) and Planting Churches from the Evangelical Ministry Assembly 2000 Plus loads from Don Carson, Bruce Milne, Philip Jensen, John Piper, Dick Lucas... Just register free and you can download all the EMA audio pre-2004 for free.  ht: Colin Adams More T...

Tom Price's straw-poll of questions that scare Christians turned up this one: If Jesus is truth, then why do so few find this truth and so many doomed to hell? Which is a re-phrase of one of Shelley's 12th question in his 1811 The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet that got him kicked out of Oxford Un...

Tom Price posts seven questions Christians say they're scared of...: How do you know that this faith (Jesus) is true? Why did God take his people into battle so much in the Old Testament? Why is it so violent? If you believe that the world is only a few 1,000 years old, what about dinosaurs, where d...

We start with God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Father sending forth his word in the power of the Spirit to bring order out of chaos, the world out of water, light over darkness climaxing in the making of Man in God’s image (Genesis 1). We find The Man placed in God’s temple-mountain garden ...

I love our church. I love that we're in a family on mission who love the sound doctrine of the gospel because we love Jesus. This mornings meeting was no exception. Matt led us in worship of Jesus, and then Stu Alred preached from 2 Corinthians 11 (download mp3). It was a very un-English and yet ver...

Previously… Christ overthrew the wicked, remembered the righteous and saved beyond expectation. Lot was offered the opportunity to flee to the mountain for grace but refused and his story ends desperately… His family will one day find redemption, adopted into the line of Judah when Boaz marries ...

From "Marriage, Christ, and Covenant: One Flesh for the glory of God (John Piper) ht: Matt Herring...