God knows the end from the beginning. God knows the end from the beginning. But here we start at the end and go back to the beginning. Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace Continue Reading
Together with Him
“If you have been raised with Him..” If…? Why the question mark? Well throughout the history of the Christian Church the members have been drilled in responding to a formal creed and once you have learned to repeat them then you are ‘in’. The Creed sums up the basic tennets Continue Reading
Taste and see that the Lord is good
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh Continue Reading
The eating disorders of the Church; The Anorectic Church
You are what you eat. If you have at all followed my writings here you will have noticed that I have a hobby horse. I insist in repeating over and over that the word of God, the bible as interpreted by the Spirit to the regenerate heart, is the sole Continue Reading
Does abide not mean abide at all?
Abide with me? There are a number of reasons for why words are used today in a fashion that was never there in their original meaning. Language is said to ‘evolve’ along with the culture in which it is used. That becomes evident when you go to literature that was Continue Reading
The deaths of God at the hands of sinners
The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable Romans 11:29 Not so long ago a man wrote a book with the title “Honest to God”. The erstwhile Bishop John A T Robinson wrote a book in which he threw out ‘The God out there’ and made God the ground of being Continue Reading
So we have no more apostles?
“I am the least among the apostles….” It seems then that it is important to establish the NT view of what apostles were and are. If we do not do our homework on that topic confusion must reign. Without a shadow of a doubt Christ invited, called and selected Continue Reading
The silencing of the Spirit
THE SILENCING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT “Never use the word silence, until you have heard a heart stop beating.” Wherever we look in the Bible we find predictions that speak of a Silence of God to come.We read of the awesome silence of our Lord when he would not respond Continue Reading
My marriage broke down, am I going to hell?
“If you divorce and remarry you will surely go to hell.” “God hates you for divorcing your wife” “If your marriage breaks down you no longer have a calling from God” This list can be extended for a considerable length and I can vouchsafe that lots of stronger invectives have Continue Reading