The 3rd Sola!
Sola Gratia - Grace Alone
This is how we’re saved. Period. What Sola Gratia teaches is that we’re saved by Grace and by Grace alone. In many ways that’s like saying we’re saved by God and God alone. What is grace? Grace is a gift. Something undeserved. Something unmerited. Something not of ourselves. Something […]
The problem is that we’re a bit like fish, we’ve never lived in anything but water, and we have never lived in anything but this culture, by which we are surrounded that constantly intrudes upon us. And I don’t know any answer to your question other than that we need to take our bearings afresh, […]
(Thanks to Gareth for the conversation that prompted this post! You can in fact ascribe nearly all the thoughts within it to him.)
I sometimes find myself becoming increasingly blasé about prayer: someone says to me ‘I’ll pray for you’ and I’m thinking ‘oh isn’t that nice’ or ‘it’s lovely to have friends who think about […]
Every Christian by definition knows God, thinks about God and makes statements about God. So, you are a theologian. Part of being a Christian is that we do theology. That is, we put together different aspects of what we understand about God, and we build it into some kind of coherent understanding of our existence […]
This morning I was at KCC for probably the last time this summer, and Chris Haines preached an absolute blinder on ‘the presence of God.’
For slightly bizarre moments, for the songs after Chris had preached, because Tim had to run off to the studio to copy something I ended up driving & mixing the PA […]
Dave Bish has a thoughtful, helpful and humbling post in response to me that drives me to my knees.
“Encourage the good where you find it and if you don’t find it look harder”
Christ must increase.
“During dinner one evening with a friend, Dan Kimball, who wrote ‘The Emerging Church,‘ I was struck by his distinction between the emergent church and the emerging church. There has been much confusion on this matter, partly due to the similarity in names. The emerging church is a growing, loosely connected movement of primarily young […]
Piper has a wonderful little ‘fresh word‘ over at Desiring God on, guess what! Desiring God. Have a joy filled 10 minutes reading it.
Dan at Cerulean Sanctum has a great post on some of the perils of the being Charismatic and being Charismatic wrong. I was challenged and humbled reading it, so I’d love it […]
I return! And with the wonderful news that camping in horrible weather is horrible. More to follow.
I’m now back from Eastbourne, although tomorrow I jet off again, this time to Soul Survivor. Regular posting should recommence the other side of that.
One slightly unfortunate side-effect of my being away for the last week was that I missed Mark Heath preaching at KCC last weekend - obviously I was at King’s Eastbourne with […]