CNN had an interview with Rick Warren in the aftermath of the Ashley Smith incident. I know that Warren has many detractors, but all I can say is I rejoice that the gospel message got out on CNN through him. WARREN: “You know, this guy was acting in — when he started killing people, when Brian Nichols started killing people — when people lack hope, they do hopeless things. And I think this guy actually felt hopeless. And so, he... Read more
Smith’s interview explains how reading a bit from the Purpose driven life to her captor helped her establish trust with him. The times answered the question how did she do it as follows “The answer seems to be, at least in large part, her faith. After her husband had died, Smith had become a born-again Christian. Though much maligned in sophisticated circles, bible-belt Christians do subscribe to at least three beliefs that might be useful (to put it mildly) in... Read more
SCOTWISE grandly continues the tradition of an acceptance speech following his recent welll-deserver warnie award. Read more
JOLLYBLOGGER: Michael Schiavo and the Gospel says “My own words convict me. I’m working on my Good Friday message and here is are the opening words: D. A. Carson is a well known Bible scholar and theologian who says this about the Apostle Paul. He cannot long talk about Christian joy, or Christian ethics, or Christian fellowship, or the Christian doctrine of God, or anything else, without finally tying it to the cross. Paul is gospel centered, he is cross-centered?... Read more
Scotwise is a regular commentator here, who’s wisdom in the comments hides the fact that on his own blog he is one of those bloggers who are wise enough to realise there are people who can say things much better than him. In Scotwise’s case the real wisdom comes from a peppering of fantastic quotes from mostly dead christian preachers and missionaries. Sadly these days the quality of being already dead seems to make your christian writing more likely to... Read more
www.nickqueen.com stole a gnome who then escaped and is visiting me in London. Turns out he just wantet to come home. As you can tell from his attire hes actually a British Gnome, I think he lives in Whitechapel one of my old stomping grounds. I wonder where he will visit next- do let us know! Read more
I have been trying to work out in my mind why it was that Mr Howard had ignited the Abortion debate. Then all of a sudden it struck me. Perhaps I am just being cynical myself, but it would seem to me that Howards proposal to reduce the number of weeks that a baby in the womb needs to fear abortion was indeed deliberately floated by him. You see, despite what the media would like us to believe some kind... Read more
You can now listen to my last Sermon which was inspired (at least in part) by Daniel Bedingfield Read more
This is the rough outline I used for last thursday’s Alpha talk on “why did jesus die?” Just to make clear to anyone who thinks I am into the penal substitutionary view as an exclusive explanation of the cross, I have no problem with using the outline Alpha proposed (which is almost identical to this one) Why did Jesus Die?For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him will not... Read more
The Zeffirelli TV Production on the life of Jesus is to be re-broadcast over this Easter weekend, I just wanted to (thoroughly) commend it to you all, and give broadcast times etc (but you will need some form of Digital TV to watch it) For any who may not know about this, it’s the definitive TV production on the life of Jesus – actually I’m sure I recall hearing Lew Grade say it was his proudest achievement (and in TV... Read more
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