The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom and Liberty, in common speech, is The power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has, to do as he pleases. Or in other words, his being free from hinderance or impediment in the ways of doing, or conducting in any respect, as he wills.
What has been […]
The righteousness of the righteous God displayed by righteously righteousing the unrighteous.
I like pithy statements. Does it show?
Gareth asks, “what’s the state of the church in the UK” - and Al Mohler answers.
So basically, evangelicalism in the UK: bunch of Hindus.
In my Sola Scriptura post I made some brief aside about the place of prophecy within an authorititive sufficient canon of scripture. My aside went something like: I’m not going to talk about this now.
Anyway, I don’t think New Testament prophecy makes us face the leaky canon problem. Adrian recently posted a reply to Dan […]
I have spent today sat at a little booth in the Hallward library on Nottingham University Campus. Reading Commentaries. This was my first day of proper work on my dissertation, which is going to be on The Imputation of Righteousness in Paul, or some such similar title.
At some point soon I might blog some preliminary […]
The foundation is theology, and then on that you build your philosophy of ministry in which you start with your Biblical principles, this is what we believe the Bible says the Church must be and do to be faithful to Jesus. Theological foundation. On that comes your ministry philosophy, which is your methods, ok, how’re […]
The iMonk turns a rarely used watchblogging eye to that increasingly popular most shinily toothed of ‘preachers.’ Frankly, taking a pop at Osteen is a little like shooting dead whales in a small bucket of fouled water. If the whales were heretics and the bucket was the tortured mass that ‘Evangelicalism’ seems to devolve into […]
…[I]t must be true, in some sense, that the Will always is, as the greatest apparent good is.
There is scarcely a plainer and more universal dictate of the sense and experience of mankind, than that, when men act voluntarily, and do what they please, then they do what suits them best, or what is most […]
I keep forgetting to do these things - I’m away. Blogging will resume on Thursday, I’m not dead. Sorry.