Holiness: It’s not a process. (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)
Street Theology: Justification by Faith (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)
The other side of the “No Smoking” sign: discrimination by Social Cleansing (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)
“Mission to the Marginalised”…? (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)
Christian Conversion: What’s it like? (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)
Why do innocent people suffer? (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…
Why is there so much about angels in the Nativity narratives of the Bible? The Biblical account is a narrative. It is constructed in the form of a story. So if the whole story of God is being told through the history of God’s dealings with creation, who is the story for? Who is the audience? It…
Original Sin: The Original Meaning (via http://www.onefaithonechurch.com)
Luke 13:19 – Pilate, Tower, Siloam, Galileans, Blood, Sarcifices, Sin, Calamity, Vinyard, and Jesus. I recently wrote this essay on Luke 13:1-9. My findings surprised me in one way: I had always thought this passage was about “sin and calamity”, but as it turns out, most Bible scholars thing…
“This life is very real to me, God” That’s precisely what the promise does, if we are to understand it properly. Other articles about the Ipswich Street Ministry Marketplace Christianity - In a Marketplace!Street Links 2012 - God does not show favouritism.Evangelism: What is it? Do you have…
“No more jail cells. Bill’s been paid. No more ticket to hell” For Big Fella, it’s personal. He’s still got friends in the drug scene, and he wants to pluck them out, one by one. Now, there’s an evangelistic enterprise… Other articles about the Ipswich Street Ministry Marketplace…
What is a ‘Christian Culture’? No matter how we define a Christian culture, it must begin with Christ himself, in who’s name it stands. By definition, everything that we find in “Christian culture” must be found in him, otherwise we are badly mistaken. That’s just common sense, right? So…
Is your heart ready to deal with this? Are you built for this? Can you handle this? Is your heart ready to deal with this? … Can I get a witness? Other articles about the Ipswich Street Ministry Marketplace Christianity - In a Marketplace!Street Links 2012 - God does not show favouritism…
Trinity: Have the JW’s withdrawn their objection? My overall answer is that the tract was badly misleading and inaccurate. It certainly is reasonable to believe in the Trinity, and I offer a defence of it. In the process I found that the JW work was not merely mistaken, but deceitful and/or terribly…
Discerning the Worldview of the Translators…? Irrespective of what we want it to say, it is important to comprehend what the original author meant by these terms, and how the original audience was to receive them. In the case of Romans 8:12-14, this requires no small amount of unravelling, after…
That awkward moment when you fracture your pregnant girlfriend’s skull In the Mall this week, we had the privilege of providing support and encouragement to a young pregnant woman with a fractured eye socket. It seems her boyfriend had become enraged in a drunken fit of jealous imagination, and pummelled…
Why did God rest? We often ask our Biblical texts questions that they were not designed to answer. This can be ok sometimes, and it can yield information that is good and helpful. But at other times it can result in us reading the text in ways that were never intended, potentially obscuring or even…
In These Rhymes Other articles about the Ipswich Street Ministry Marketplace Christianity - In a Marketplace!Street Links 2012 - God does not show favouritism.Evangelism: What is it? Do you have to do it?Titles: "Who do you say I am?"Why do all the charities have to be run by Christians?The Ministry…