The Bible is quite specific with regard to the Lord’s Supper that ‘For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes’ (1 Cor.11:26). However, it does not directly tell how often we are to celebrate it; we know more …
Recent decades in the Western world have certainly witnessed in our communities an increase in the amount of what we might call Christophobia, or a paranoid fear of Christ. Indeed, some quarters exhibit more of a fierce hatred. Any lingering post-Victorian respect for Christ, even if somewhat vague and incoherent, …
Some time back we saw that creation points us to the Creator (e.g. Ps.19:1; Rom.1:20). Also, we all have God’s law written upon our hearts (Rom.2:14-16). Finally, Christ points us more directly to God as He is God in the flesh (John 1:1, 14; Col.2:9). Yet there are other pointers …
Normally one looks to the New York Times for wisdom in the same way that one might look for gold in a rubbish dump – it may be there, but it will take a lot of digging, and the prospects of success are not great. Yet, on 14 July 2012 …
The Prussian philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), famously exclaimed: ‘Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.’ That was about as excited as Kant ever got, …
Those who derive their worldview from the world can only find themselves sinking into a mire, ‘for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter’ (Isa.28:15b). Nowhere has this become more obvious than in the year that has passed since Anders Breivik bombed government buildings …
Never have I felt more empathy with the sentiments of Jude: ‘Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints’ (Jude 3). …
Calvin begins his magisterial Institutes of the Christian Religion with the observation that ‘Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.’ He saw these two aspects of wisdom as related to one another, …
Strangely enough, the Bible tells us to be humble and also to boast. We are to ‘do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God’ (Micah 6:8). Not only are we to walk humbly with God, but also before others. We are to do nothing from …
The notion of substitutionary sacrifice is written deep into our hearts. During the widespread Queensland floods of January 2011, a mother, Donna Rice, and her two sons, Blake (10) and Jordan (13), were caught in the family car as it was pummelled by a wall of water. In the terrible …
