Times of lock down do highlight what the Bible says about God’s covenant community. Throughout the Bible, God unfolds covenants with His people – a covenant of works with Adam; and then succeeding covenants of grace in various guises, to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses, to David, and finally the …
The lockdowns associated with COVID-19 have had the effect of straining relationships in a number of places, and the church has not escaped. The threat that worshippers in NSW churches will require vaccine passports before they can be allowed to join in public worship adds an extra dimension of angst. …
The Puritans of the 17th century were renowned for their self-discipline. It was said of Samuel Rutherford: ‘He is always praying, always preaching, always visiting the sick, always catechising, always writing and studying.’ The early Methodists were methodical.
‘to win’ is found five times in these verses, plus ‘to save’ in verse 22. Proverbs 11:30 tells us that ‘whoever captures souls is wise’.
‘All that is not eternal is eternally out of date,’ said C. S. Lewis. It is one of those fresh and startling comments that Lewis was prone to make. We live in a world which is imprisoned within itself, yet full of geniuses telling us how to respond to it, …
Charles Spurgeon: ‘Only fools and madmen are positive in their interpretations of the Apocalypse.’ But it can be done!
Calvin: ‘many people are led stray under the cover of holy Scripture.’ Some just reject the law. Others see the law as the way to salvation, as the Pharisees did. Others think they are neutral, which, of course, is beguiling.
Paul deals with his right to earn a living by preaching the gospel, but also says that he freely decided not to make use of this right.
Before he died of cancer in 2011, Christopher Hitchens spoke for many a modern atheist – and ancient one for that matter – when he declared: ‘We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion.’ It has become a common enough view. The recently appointed president …
Calvin: ‘All the sorrows, fears, troubles, hopes, doubts, perplexities, stormy outbreaks by which the hearts of men are tossed are here depicted by the Holy Spirit.’ See Prov.18:14. Calvin sees David as the author, but the sons of Korah could be from the Babylonian exile of the sixth century …
