September 2011

The Church’s One Foundation

I though I’d start the week by quoting one of my favourite hymns in its entirety for your consideration. There are one or two verses in here that we don’t normally sing, probably cause it’ll make the song go on for ages (not that that’s a bad thing in my estimation). Nevertheless this is a [...]

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Worldview? How You See The World

There is a lot of talk these days about worldviews, Christian worldview, secular worldview, biblical worldview, evolutionary worldview and so on. But what does this little phase mean and why is it important? Or is it even important? The answer to the last question is a resounding YES. Lets first look at the word itself: [...]

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Chapters And Verses Stats

I had fun a a couple of years ago counting all of the number of verses in the bible and doing a bit of a statistical analysis of that data. I found some interesting things; for example Luke has the most number of verses per chapter, which is why it always took me ages to [...]

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A Matter Of Authority–Healing And Miracles Part 1

This is post number two from the requests I got recently, and the topic for this post is healings and miracles. However when I began writing this post, I did not consider the amount of ground I had to cover, so now its part 1 of at least 2 maybe more posts on the subject. [...]

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Bad! Bad! Bad!

Ok so I just got this email and it seems to be one of the circulars. But while it is apparently written in English it is entirely incomprehensible. I mean, I know those words, I use many of them but in this statement they seem to fog over with a different meanings. However the first [...]

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Fighting Epicureanism

Ok, I’ll grant you, the name in the above title is probably not something you’ve ever heard of before, but for myself I have found that it is something that invokes foreboding and wariness. But first things first, what is Epicureanism? Act 17:18  Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And [...]

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On The Immortality Of The Flesh

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download For most of my life, both as a false convert, then later, as a believer in Jesus Christ, I had a vague stereotypical idea of what heaven in like. Basically in my ignorance, I believed that once a believer died, their soul left their body and went to [...]

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An Interesting Encounter

I had the privilege of preaching the Gospel again yesterday, first to one girl, then three of her friends. The setup was rather interesting, she was bored in class (and finished the assigned work), but then started talking about, what amounted to existential philosophy. I mentioned to her that that was what she was doing, [...]

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The Problem With Free Will vs Sovereignty

The problem with the freewill vs sovereignty debate is that it is mistitled. You see, the bible presents both ideas, freewill (Gen 2:16-17) and sovereignty (Eph 1:11; Acts 4:24; 1Tim 6:15; Rev 6:10 et al.) are presented in scripture. Then how should we understand the balance between the two, how do they work and how [...]

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A Few Brief Thoughts On The Tongue

This is my second post on thoughts gathered during the conference, This one is more compact as I didn’t develop the idea fully on the day. I will probably expand on this topic soon What a wonderful thing it is that Christ has provided atonement for our sins, not least of which is the tongue. [...]

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