I received an email from a Christian parent with a teenage child who is a believer and suffers from a similar form of depression to what I suffer with. This open letter is what I would say if I had the opportunity to speak to them. Being a Christian is the greatest way to live. [...]

Theology has fallen on bad times. In one sense, it always has. The image of the guy with an insanely long beard, surrounded by books, looking like my guy here… …is just not appealing to us. It’s too cerebral, too based on the brain, too intellectual. “Christianity is not intellectual, it’s faith, the heart, the [...]

One of the integral issues relating to the issue of reformed theology in the ‘black church’ context is whether there is even an institution such as the ‘black church’. If you had asked me a year ago, I’d have said that the idea of the black church was just a mythical idea of what church [...]

This post was written late last night in commemoration of Reformation Day 2011. Realising I attached an hour’s worth of video, I figured it would be better to post this in the afternoon when folks could benefit b It’s 10:20pm on Reformation Day. October 31, 2011. 494 years after Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to [...]

As a confessing Reformed Baptist, I fully affirm its teaching regarding the three use of the laws. The Reformer Reader explains what the three uses are: When the Reformed and Lutheran scholastics talked about God’s moral law (lex moralis), they taught that there are three basic uses of the law (usus legis).  They are: 1) [...]

If you’re familiar with the reformed blogosphere, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the big discussions that have happened in recent months regarding the relationship between justification and sanctification. As I read the material and hear the discussions, I will admit that I’ve not been at ease with the conclusions reached. Thankfully, I am not [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking of late – always a dangerous thing to do, I know. Much of my thinking has been captured by the Book of Hebrews, which I’m studying at the moment. Hebrews begins with one of my favourite opening lines in all of literature: Long ago, at many times and [...]

I’m honoured to be a member at the Metropolitan Tabernacle here in London, where Dr. Peter Masters serves as Minister. This past Wednesday, Dr. Masters taught from 1 Tim 4:13-14 in our midweek Bible study on the subject of Exercising Gifts. Particularly edifying was the defense of cessationism (the Biblical teaching that the sign gifts [...]

..the Mormons won’t even hold it. I’m currently reading Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century by Hank Hanegraaff again and came across this very perceptive section. Dr Hanegraaff writes: The Faith teachings have now become so blasphemous and bizarre that even cultists are taking issue with them., For example, Mormon scholar and author Stephen E. Robinson, [...]

[25] “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? [26] Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap [...]