Nancy Pearcy has recently received the ECPA Gold Medallion award for her book Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Crossway) for best book of the year in the category of Christianity and Society. This comes on the heels of winning the Award of Merit in the Christianity Today 2005 book awards in the category of Christianity and Culture. It is my privilege to welcome her to my blog for a “blog interview” which took place over e-mail. For... Read more
Its about time I did a round up of the last blogger challange I set a while back. Certain events have delayed me posting this, and for that I apologise. I have been so humbled and impressed by these answers that I simply cannot pick a “winner”. I hope everyone who took the challenge feels they have benefited even half as much from doing it as I have from reading the entries. So here goes, but please let me know... Read more
Two more loose ends to tie up about the recent ESV series. Firstly, I’d like to link to a fantastic book by Leland Ryken called Choosing a bible. This book is available to buy or as a free pdf download. It explains simply the rational behind an essentially literal version. Leland argues that we believe that the very words of the bible are inspired and not just the “meaning” behind them. Certainly as a preacher being able to transparently see... Read more
Yesterday was the most romantic day I have had in a long time. The company of course was a major reason, since although it is 10 years and 1 day since we got married we are still just as much in love. But the suroundings also played a big part. There is possibly nothing more romantic than a day which includes walking through Greenwich market to the observatory at the top of Greenwich Park hill. This is without doubt the... Read more
Ten years ago today I made the best decision I ever made in my whole life and married the woman of my dreams. I still dream of her now, and am so very glad that she has been my friend, my confidant, my lover and my helper all this time. I could not do even half of the things I do now without the support of such a woman. She sees the worst side of me but still loves me... Read more
Today I travelled through Kings Cross twice. Both times I felt the same mournful atmosphere overwhelmed me. This morning Police and senior underground officials were guarding the still closed underground entrance on the main concorse. This evening the entrance was open once again and the police seemed slightly more relaxed at this new step towards normality though still vigilant. I visited the memorial flower garden which was nothing like as extensive as that which arrose after Diana’s death a few... Read more
R.C Sprouls book “What is Reformed Theology is the best available simple explanation of Reformed Theology I have seen. You may have never heard of Reformed theology or youmay have rejected out of court what you believe Calvinism stands for. The truth is that despite its current neglect the theology Sproul so clearly explains in this book has been immensely influential in the centuries since the reformation. Sproul explains what the so-called “solas” mean, and outlines each of the so-called... Read more
I sat in a pub this lunchtime with a colleague from work. We were talking mainly about the office. Then, our conversation was errupted by a fairly loud bang. The shock and surprise on both of our faces in response to what was just a cannon announcing 2 minutes of silence said it all. I genuinely thought for a second the terrorists had struck again just when we were all remembering our dead. Even the second shot from the cannon... Read more
Thanks to my friend pyromaniac for the image- good when someone helps you to copy them mercilessly! The Christian carnival is up and for once I remembered to submit a post. David Warnock lays down a challenge I cannot refuse. Blogotional thinks my Paul question is idle spectulation but is gracious enough to still want to buy me a curry in London in early August. Since even my wife felt the question was perhaps a waste of time I am... Read more
All my Christian life people have told me Paul never met Jesus during his ministry. I have somehow instinctively never quite believed it. Why you ask? The main reason is psychological. Paul was driven by such hatred to persecute christians it seems hard to believe he hadn’t met the object of his fury. I suspect Paul had met Jesus, indeed I wonder whether many of Luke’s Pharisee encounters were actually told to him by Paul. It seems bizarre to me... Read more
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