Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
February 2009
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
One of the more ludicrous ecclesiastical efforts of 2008 came in September when the Church of England bishops apologised to Charles Darwin (1809-82). What Darwin made of this is unknown as he had been dead for …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
January 2009
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
In Roman mythology, Janus was a two-headed god who looked backwards and forwards, and so was regarded as the god of gateways and doorways. He has given his name to our month January, which is a …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
December 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
Probably one of the most obvious of all Christian doctrines is that of original sin, that we human beings are, in C. S. Lewis’ terms, ‘the bent ones’. We are all born with something radically wrong …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
November 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
In a sermon delivered in 1933, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted quite vigorously that all sins are equal in God’s sight: ‘All sin is sin to God and miserliness is no worse than drunkenness. Both are equally …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
October 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
Where the Christian revelation is despised, there will be a consequent decline in our apprehension of beauty, goodness and truth. In other words, ungodliness will lead to moral decay, and the result will be a greater …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
September 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
People who claim to believe the Bible can still manage to draw false deductions from it. Over the centuries there have been some strange efforts in this regard. Sometimes the result is almost amusing – except …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
August 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
I sometimes get asked impossible questions from people who want to know exactly what God is doing in a particular situation. They may have to decide about a business venture, for example, and they want to …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
July 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
The book of Acts reveals to us how the gospel was made known to people who were, initially at least, not Christians, be they Jews or Gentiles. The epistles, however, were written to churches or people …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
June 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
Is it obvious that God exists? Richard Dawkins does not think so: ‘The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
May 2008
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
Of all the accusations levelled at the Christian faith, perhaps one of the most difficult to counter concerns the charge of genocide – that the Israelites carried out a policy of genocide, on God’s orders, when …
