Holiness: It’s not a process.

Holiness: It’s not a process. (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

What is “holiness”? The term “holiness” conjures ideas of piety and moral uprightness. In fact, the word translated as “saint” from the New Testament is literally “holy person”. So we might well imagine very religious piety. Sanctification is a word based on the same Greek root word…

Street Theology: Justification by Faith

Street Theology: Justification by Faith (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

How Biblical Justification Looks “On the Street” Everybody loves being right. It’s even better when you are recognised as being right in front of other people. When those other people have scoffed and mocked you, the victory is all the sweeter. But the ultimate prize is when you are declared…

The other side of the “No Smoking” sign: discrimination by Social Cleansing

The other side of the “No Smoking” sign: discrimination by Social Cleansing (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

Is this Social Cleansing? I’m a non-smoker. Indeed, I am even an ex-smoker, and I support the principle of removing cigarette smoke from the lives of those who don’t smoke.But the recent (1st Feb 2013) ban on smoking in some of the public spaces in Ipswich has made me uneasy from the start. Today…

“Mission to the Marginalised”…?

“Mission to the Marginalised”…? (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

How many roads must a man walk down before they call him a missionary? I was invited recently to talk under the heading “Mission to the Marginalised”. (I frequently wrestle with the appropriateness and definition of words like “mission” and “marginalised”, but at least the other two words…

Christian Conversion: What’s it like?

Christian Conversion: What’s it like? (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

Christian Conversion: A view from the inside I thought I’d just whack down some thoughts about my own conversion to faith. It’s not expert poetry, it’s constructed with the simplest of metres and most elementary rhyme, but it suffices to carry the message.I am interested in suggestions for the…

Why do innocent people suffer?

Why do innocent people suffer? (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

What would your response have been? I was aware that my friend had been grieving the death of her adult daughter, who had been murdered by White Supremacists. They left her hung by the neck, in a room covered in blood from obvious signs of struggle. The police declined to investigate, deeming it a…

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. Jn 16:12

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. – Jn 16:12 (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. – Jn 16:13 What is Truth? An exasperated Pilate poses the question, “What is truth?” (Jn 18:38). He did so because Jesus said, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me” (Jn 18:37). So what is this “truth…