What ever happened to Sunday evening worship?
It’s now a common occurrence for churches to only have a single service on a Sunday. We spend time dining, socialising and finishing off our chores or even a day out shopping. The evening service is disregarded as we fill our time with other things.
The H word
Hell. It’s probably the topic that Christians, myself included, least want to talk about. But is there a more needful topic in our day? Jesus spoke of hell more than any other person in the Bible.
To death with respectable Christianity
There is a form of Christianity that is very respectable in its own eyes.
It doesn’t swear or make rude jokes.
It wears a nice shirt on Sundays.
It’s quite middle class and quite comfortable.
But is it right?
Are you sure you really want revival?
There seems to be a stirring in certain parts. Something’s happening out there. Whispers of a ‘Quiet Revival’ are getting louder. Perhaps God is on the move? We might pray vaguely for revival, but have we thought that revival might not mean what we think it does?
Seeing the Psalms as the songs that Jesus sung
Songs connect with us emotionally in ways that no other form of expression can. Songs reverberate around our heads more than plain words do. In this post, I want to argue that if we want to be more like Jesus and live more like Him, then we need to sing the Psalms just like He did.
What seven years in a Presbyterian church has taught me
I’m a Baptist, the son of a Baptist. So it may surprise you to learn that for the past seven years I’ve been a member of a Presbyterian church. Now that Presbyterianism has been somewhat demystified for me, here are some things that I’ve learnt.
Bochim: rediscovering a theology of lament
Today it seems that followers of Jesus have largely forgotten what it means to lament. But there is much to lament, in our own hearts and lives, in our churches and in our land. Life is hard; so many people are suffering because of the curse on us due to sin. We need to rediscover a biblical theology of lament.
AI and the church: should they mix?
In my last post on AI, we traced its history, considered what AI is and isn’t, how it is already everywhere, its future and a general Christian perspective on AI. This time I want to home in on the usage of AI in a church context. Is AI the next best thing or should we take a Luddite axe to this new-fangled technology?
How should we respond to fallen Christian leaders?
In this current sad state of affairs, where Christian leaders seem to be falling like flies, some of us may be tempted to ask whether we can even trust a word any Christian leader says anymore. How do we make sense of this? Were these fallen leaders even Christians in the first place? Should we burn their books and have nothing more to do with them ever again?
What David teaches us about why Christian leaders fall
Almost every week seems to bring another headline announcing the fall from grace of a Christian leader into one horrific sin or another. Ravi Zacharias, Steven J. Lawson, Iain D. Campbell, the list of tragedies goes on. How has it come to this?
Where is our compassion?
Compassion is the emotion most ascribed to Jesus in the Gospels. Sometimes it seems like the emotion most missing from Christian hearts these days is compassion. When did we stop caring?
What ever happened to good works?
Today it seems that many Protestant Christians can sometimes slip into practical antinomianism, living as though it doesn’t matter how we live because only faith saves. So what role do good works take if only faith saves? What did the Reformers believe about the role of faith and works?