Tips on reading Christian books
Things happen when people pick up books and read them. Books fire up the mind and awaken the imagination. When we put down our phones and pick up books, especially good books, our lives are changed.
Seeing the Psalms as the songs that Jesus wrote
The Psalms are the songs that Jesus wrote. You might think that an incongruous notion–after all, don’t the Psalm superscriptions name other authors? And yet I have the cheek to suggest that Jesus wrote the Psalms?! What about David, ‘the sweet psalmist of Israel’?
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.
Seeing the Psalms as the songs that speak about Jesus
It’s staggering to think that as we read, sing and pray the Psalms, we use the same words Jesus Himself would’ve used during His time on earth.
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.
By prayer let us wrestle: encouragements from the Welsh Methodists
In the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist revivals of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Lord worked powerfully in answer to the prayers of his people. It is said that the prayer meeting is the powerhouse of the church. With this in mind, here are three encouragements for us as believers to wrestle in prayer.
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?
The key to Christian dating
There’s much that could be said about ‘dating’ from a Christian angle. There are many things lads and lasses perhaps need to be told or reminded of. Gents leading a ‘bachelor’ lifestyle perhaps need to take care of themselves by way of personal grooming—being clean, hygienic and presentable can go a long way! But Christians don’t date as the world does.
Paradoxical providences
Sometimes when it seems like things don’t go our way, we can wonder what the Lord is up to. We get it. It’s a long, narrow road, and all will end well ultimately. But sometimes it sure does seem like everything is going to pot… How can God make ‘all things work together for good’ out of the carnage we see all around us or even inside us?
11 Bible resources every Christian needs
If the best book to read is the Bible, then the next best books (and resources) are those that help us read, understand, meditate on and delight in the Bible. If I had to choose a football (or cricket) XI out of these, here are my top picks which I think every Christian should use.
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?