Lately I have been trying to be polite and restrained in my blogging most of the time. But in what may be a worrying or gratifying trend depending on your perspective that which is bottled up inside of me has been bursting out all of a sudden! My close blogging friend, Patrior Paradox says “To be quite honest with pepole who come by here I’ll admit that I am someone who gets depressed quite a bit. My whole life I’ve... Read more
David Bedingfield’s says God warned his parents he would be in a car crash just three weeks before he was. Clearly DB is not a cessationist! Read more
Patriot Paradox in a throw away comment accuses Western Christians: “We love only ourselves, and embracing God is only for our convenience” What a challenge that is to me personally and to all of us. Does being a Christian make my life easier? Does it give me a social network? Security? A sense of destiny and purpose to my life? Instruction for living to avoid messing up my cosy middle class life? Moral guidance? Is it all about me? Christ... Read more
Guardian Unlimited reports on the tragic case of identical twins raised as opposite genders: “They were meant to show that gender was determined by nurture, not nature – one identical twin raised as a boy and the other brought up as a girl after a botched circumcision. But two years ago Brian Reimer killed himself, and last week David – formerly Brenda – took his life too.” Read more
My American cousins continue to amaze me. I am glad that Nick has asked the question ‘How Can We Be Christians and Hate All Iraqis?’ but am rather bemused that it needed to be asked by an American Christian at all. But need to be asked it did! I had planned on staying out of this one, and I wont replicate Nicks post here, but suffice it to say, whilst we understand and share the anger many feel at the... Read more
Many cessationists would own the Doctor (one of the English speaking world’s greatest examples of a preacher) as their own. Yes, he was skeptical of much of what goes on in the charismatic movement- but to be honest in some circles so am I! In this quote he seems to imply that what I have called the ‘extreme cessationist’ position is a relatively new one in the church. He rebuts this strongly and this is classic Lloyd-Jones on the need... Read more
Matthew Henry commenting on the same verse that Spurgeon was preaching on reveals himself as a ceassationist, but appear to be open to the need for a conscious experience of the Holy Spirit that not all may Christians may have…. “We are not now to expect any such extraordinary gifts as they had then. The canon of the New Testament being long since completed and ratified, we depend upon that as the most sure word of prophecy. But there are... Read more
ARe you a cheesy, whiny, quiche eating, preening Nancy Boy I hope not!!!! Whre are all the real men? I thank God there are loads in the church I attend. Whether it can attract real men is probably a good measure of the spiritual health of a church- the women seem to go anyway! Whether that says something about the spirtuality of women or the discernment of men I am not sure! Read more
Spurgeon is one of my heroes of the faith. He was probably the greatest English speaking preacher ever. If you don’t have it already Ages software do a fantastic deal on a disk containing all of Spurgeons sermons for a ridiculously low price! Anyway back to our question- what would he have made of the charismatics ERIC HAYDEN replied by quoting a sermon entitled ‘Receiving the Holy Ghost #1790 Vol 30, Year 1884, pg. 386, (Acts 19:2) and it is... Read more
Jollyblogger has replied to my post with another on the will of God: Towards the end of an interesting and long post which also does a great job of listing other material on blogs on the subject he states “That’s a long winded response and story. My guess is that Adrian and I are extremely close on this. I think the crux of the matter is ‘what place does the subjective play in discerning the will of God?’ We both... Read more
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