How To Feast
Everyone has a different attitude to Christmas, some very for, some very against, and lots in the middle. Ecclesiastes 11:17 offers a good, practical goal for the season.
Reformed tradition
Category: Reformed tradition
Connecting the dots
What is the reformed church all about? People often ask me that question. One answer is that reformed churches are churches that want to “connect
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Jesus the Baptist
If you’ve been with us for a while, you’re probably aware that we baptise the children of believers at church. That can often surprise, confuse,
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Be careful of undoing white, European theology
Lots of evangelicals are questioning the ascendance of “white, European theology”, especially its export to other parts of the world. “Stop ramming white theology down
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The regulative principle and perfection
If you play with perfection, you spoil it. Let’s say you’re entrusted with the Mona Lisa for a day. Do you think you could make
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Bank robbers and church robbers
“Guard the deposit, entrusted to you” (1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:14). What would you think of a bank that had no security? They didn’t
Whenever you hear the phrase “relationship with God”…
… I want you to think: “covenant!”. That was the take home lesson of the first session of our “crash-course on the covenants” last week.
“Traditional” church
If we want people to come to our church, “traditional” is one of the last words any of us would use to describe us. Nowadays,
The sin of curiosity
If you read Christian theology, you’ll come across something called the sin of curiosity. For example, the Westminster Larger Catechism lists “curious searching into God’s secrets” as
Full of the Holy Spirit
We saw on Sunday that Barnabas was “full of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 11:24) and I said that every Christian needs to be “full of
