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What do we do in the Face of Suffering?
For many people living in the West where the cultural bias is towards an expectation of everybody being healthy and living longer, sickness readily becomes seen as the main focus of one’s... [Read More]
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Why we might not be as Reformed as we think we are
Recently a number of terms have come into more regular use within the circles in which I tend to move. One of these is Reformed. This term is easy to use if the guys that you like seem to define... [Read More]
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Towards a Christian approach to the environment
One of the most spectacular cultural changes during the past half-century is the fact that the environment has moved from being an incidental issue to become a central political priority,... [Read More]
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Israel and the Church: Fulfilment of promise
Ronald E. Diprose writes that, to him, the question of Israel had become “some kind of theological football that opposing teams of theologians kicked about in accordance with their particular... [Read More]
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Christians & Politics: Subservient or Subversive?
In polite English society, the two subjects never to be discussed at the dinner table are Religion and Politics. Commenting in 2005, Rabbi Sir Jonathon Sacks wrote in The Times “Religion becomes... [Read More]
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The Authority of Scripture
The question of Authority has become an increasingly crucial issue to be faced today, since its absence, abandonment, or lack of clear basis, has thrown up huge intellectual and ethical problems both... [Read More]
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What is the essential gospel?
The search for the essential Gospel has a slightly Holy Grail feel to it. As you rummage through academic tomes about the ‘centre of Paul’s thought’, the ‘heart of the Gospel’ or the... [Read More]
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A healthy theology of healing
Have you ever looked at an old photograph of yourself and been struck by how much younger you look in the photo? Welcome to the club. It’s called the ageing process.
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A pastoral perspective on the theology of death
The issue of death may be seen in theological terms as a small part of the the pursuit of systematic theology, or a significant part of the doctrine of eschatology. Alternatively, death and dying may... [Read More]
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Spiritual authority in the church
I am convinced that we stand at a critical time in the Church’s history in this country and in our Churches in particular:
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The Atonement Debate Within Contemporary Evangelicalism
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the thinking that has led some who would see themselves as evangelical to doubt the validity of the penal substitution explanation of atonement.
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The Faith Churches’
An Overview of the Issues
For most of us, the Word of Faith (WoF) movement is represented by the teachings of Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. In addition, there has been a rumbling... [Read More] -
Houses that Change the World
Eddie Gibbs, in his book, 'Church Next', comments that "The longer a person lives, the more he or she tends to dwell on the past rather than live in dynamic interaction with the present or be... [Read More]
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Work and Career
There is an urgent necessity for all of us to re-appraise our understanding of vocation, work and career. At the beginning of the Thatcher era before a different approach to the economy really... [Read More]
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Grace and holiness
The original brief for this study came from David Holden. He expressed concern that while we as a movement were strong on the grace message there was evidence that we were weak on the area of... [Read More]
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What is a person?
Not to kill is prescriptive in Scripture. Starkly, it is jealousy and murder that rise up between the first children born (Gen 4). Following the flood, it is clearly established that God’s... [Read More]
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