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Treasuring the Presence of God with Devotion
‘Devoted’ is a rather mushy word. It’s a word used in naff pop songs, and in twee greeting cards. It’s a word that is often reduced to a cloying sentimentality.... Read more -
Winter Is Coming: And We’ll Spend it in Babylon
In one of the most perceptive pieces I've read in a while Steve McAlpine argues that Christians are facing a time of exile - only we won't be spending it in Athens as... Read more -
Treasuring the Presence of God by Faith
One of my hunches is that we live in an increasingly regulated society because we trust one another less than we used to. At root I think this lack of trust was born in... Read more -
Treasuring the Presence of God in Liberty
One of the great shifts in western society since (and to a large extent because of) the Second World War has been the move to informality. The pace of this change has... Read more -
With Such A One Do Not Even Eat, 4: Defining the terms
So far in this series of posts on 1 Corinthians 5:11 we’ve examined how the application of church discipline is extremely difficult for us, how Paul grounds his... Read more -
Treasuring the Presence of God
In recent years many of us have undergone a shift in our theological grids from Systematic theology to a Biblical theology approach. Read more -
With Such A One Do Not Even Eat, 3: Degrees of exclusion
In the previous post in this series we looked at the way Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 5 about excluding persistent sinners from the church are grounded in the... Read more -
A Working Hypothesis of Human Sexuality
As in households across the UK, the women in my life were hooked on the Poldark TV series. This was down to the storytelling and scenery, though the physical... Read more -
Bring on the Bland
In a few hours time the polls will open and I will trudge off to vote; though I am still not sure in which box my ‘X’ will go. As difficult as it is to maintain, I... Read more -
With Such A One Do Not Even Eat, 2: The Text
In the first post in this series I looked at how difficult it is for us to exercise church discipline in a culture which holds moral values very different from biblical... Read more - Page ‹ First < 32 33 34 35 36 > Last ›