Our God reigns!

30Oct09

BIll James said some challenging things in his sermon a couple of weeks ago:
If you truly understood the sovereignty of God you would never worry.
If you truly understood the love of God you would never be lonely.
We need to remember the sovereignty of Christ – not because we have nothing to fear, but because our [...]

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Tags: love, Mark Driscoll, christ, sovereignty of God, anxiety, worries, burden, challenging, lonely

New Priest, New Covenant, New Life

10Feb09

Hebrews 8:
The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man. Every high priest is appointed to offer both [...]

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Tags: Bible, Christianity, covenant, cross, God, good news, good works, gospel, hebrews, high priest, Jesus, Jews, judgement, legalism, love, New Testament, Old Testament, religious, ritualism, sacrifice, sin

Prosperity ‘gospel’

08Feb09

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Tags: gospel, Jesus, John Piper, prosperity gospel, suffering

The Shack

05Jan09

I haven’t actually read this book in it’s entirety, but I’ve read enough for it to worry me. What worries me most is that many Christians are buying copies of this book in bulk and giving it to their non-Christian friends in the hope it will interest them in Christianity and maybe lead them to [...]

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Tags: Books, God, heresy, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, the shack, trinity, William P Young

The Florida ‘revival’

22May08

If you hadn’t heard already, there is a ‘revival’ in Florida. I am using inverted commas because I think it is important we examine the facts before whole-heartedly embracing this ‘wave of the Holy Spirit’. Here is the claim off the lwc ministries website:

Revival has broken out at Lakeland and each day God is moving powerfully. People [...]

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Tags: false prophet, Florida, Fresh Fire Ministry, God TV, healings, heresy, Ignited church, Lakeland, revival, Todd Bently

Saturday Sabbath

11May08

Some Christians believe that the Sabbath day is still Saturday and that Sunday is a secular day…
In posting this, I am not saying I agree with the writer’s views…I just came across it and thought it was of interest. What are your thoughts? 
All following text taken from http://www.sabbath-day.net/ 
 
If the Sabbath is an unchanged Commandment, then we [...]

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Speaking in tongues – your thoughts

11May08

I am interested in hearing people’s arguments either for or against speaking in tongues today…please comment with your thoughts backed up by Scripture

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Tags: charismatic, holy spirit, pentecost, speaking in tongues, spiritual gifts, tongues

Glorify God by enjoying him

27Apr08

I have just started reading Desiring God by John Piper in which he declares himself a ‘Christian Hedonist’, making some of the more conservative of us reel back in horror. Hedonist? Christian? Noo. Surely those two never go together.
To be honest, if I didn’t know John Piper to be pretty sound and I came across [...]

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Tags: Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Desiring God, hedonism, John Piper, Psalms, Westminster confession