It’s been a while since I last blogged - I’m surprised to see how long! I’ve had a busy month at work and at Grace Church and I haven’t been great at making the spare moments needed to write my thoughts here.
Rest assured - because I know you were panicking - there will be more […]
I went to a wedding yesterday, but that isn’t what I want to talk about. The service was in a traditional looking Anglican church building - stained glass, soaring ceilings, the works.
Now, this isn’t the sort of place that churches in our sort of streams tend to meet in, but it does have some benefits. […]
As I’m imagining you’re well aware, the Protestant doctrine of salvation is ‘justification by grace through faith alone,’ although it is most commonly taught as ‘justification by faith.’ Generally it is considered that the opposing Roman Catholic doctrine is ‘justification by works,’ and while this is unfair to their theology (it’s actually something more like […]
Theology in its ‘proper’ sense involves delving into and investigating the character of God. That is pretty much the root of it.
So, why should Christians do that?
Simple. Christian were called out of darkness for a purpose: to be worshippers. Note that that is not ‘to offer worship.’ The distinction is that God is not after […]
So what should we have learnt from Jonathan Edwards? Imputation is important. Without that you don’t have much left. It’s a little bit like a house of cards. When you fire a nuclear missile at it, there isn’t much left afterwards.
The Rebelution, with its wonderful tag line “do hard things,” has now released the Modesty Survey. It’s viewable online here. Generally, this has to be a good thing - although it might not surprise you that much to hear that I’d disagree with some of the sentiments expressed by other people who filled it in!
While […]
I’ve been thinking about Arminianism lately. Not in a ‘isn’t this theological salvific system interesting’ way, more in a ‘isn’t it sad what you can’t believe if you’re going to hold this and be consistent’ way.
There’s lots of things you have to chuck out.
The Imputation of Righteousness - it doesn’t fit in an Arminian system […]
The Gospel Is:
The Risen Jesus
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1 Corinthians 15:17-19
The Gospel […]
The Gospel is:
A Declaration of Righteousness
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.
Romans 3:21
We have a problem: we are apart from God, in open rebellion from his kingship. God has been gracious to us in that he hasn’t wiped us […]
A new series of short reflections on different aspects of what the Gospel is.
The Gospel is:
A Gift of Righteousness
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Romans 4:3
We have a problem of unrighteousness. That is to say, we have no standing in […]