Archive for June, 2006

Mahaney & the Atonement debate

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

“Scripture is blood soaked”
- CJ Mahaney
I listened this afternoon to the Mahaney sermon from New Attitude that Adrian Warnock’s quoting of (’God killed Jesus’) sparked off all this recent atonement controversy that you can’t fail to’ve seen if you follow the blogosphere. Mahaney during it re-read John 3:16 in light of Isaiah 53. It runs […]

People who say it better than me

Monday, June 19th, 2006

And it looks like John Piper agrees with me:
If looking back on past grace was the way the saints of the Old Testament fought the fight of faith in future grace, it is all the more necessary for us to fight this way today; because for us the greatest grace in world history is now […]

2 little weeks and a barrel of grace

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Wow, I seem to be writing a blog entry, this must be something of a surprise! My little time-eating friend has run away now, and I won’t see her until Brighton, sadly. I don’t particuarly feel inclined to blog about quite how unhappy I am about that state of affairs though, but it’s only 2 […]

Regular blogging will return soon

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

When the heathen hear God’s oracles on our lips they marvel at their beauty and greatness. But afterwards, when they mark that our deeds are unworthy of the words we utter, they turn from this to scoffing, and say that it is a myth and a delusion.
- 2 Clement 13:4

Short time periods need to be made the most of

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

God is above all notion and name. God is a super-substantial substance, an understanding not to be understood, a word never to be spoken
- Thomas Brooks

Persecution complex? I hope not.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Essay’s which have horrendously bad marks on them don’t please me. Neither do very rude comments on them from lecturers. Neither does my impression that this is one the better essays I’ve written, and even if it wasn’t - in no way did it deserve that mark. I really get the feeling that those of […]