Commenting in a sermon on the discussion of apostasy in 1 John 5, Kingsley Barrett says—- “You cannot ever become so good a Christian as to be secure, beyond all fear of falling. ‘AH Lord, with trembling I confess, A gracious soul may fall from grace; The salt may lose its seasoning power, And never, never, find it more’ (Charles Wesley). This means you must watch your step when you talk about Christian certainty. Karl Barth once wrote ‘God lends... Read more
A few days ago my son and I were doing our lessons and learning to read and write small words. We were doing those which end with the N, putting various consonants in front of them— bin, din, pin, and so on, we read. We came to the letter S and (I must admit) more for fun than for anything else I asked ‘Do you know what sin means?’ Martin looked at me and said ‘it is something we like... Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqc_srpUzA When you have a sequel to the prequels that has as its sequel the original three Star Wars movies (plus last year’s installment), things can get confusing fast, especially if you are not literate in ‘Star Wars’ sagas. And sure enough, this movie, which consists at the outset with all new characters, not to mention a flurry of new planets and moons is confusing, even for those with whom the Force is strong. You might need Yoda to sort... Read more
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“THE MARKS OF JESUS”—GALATIANS 6.17 [Preached thirty-four times from S.H.M. on 6/27/43 to 11/17/02 at Wheatley Hill] But they had troubled him enough in the past. They had well-nigh broken his heart. Just where Galatia was, and when Paul went there are questions about which some of us get more heated than we should, and to which none of us certainly know the answers. But we do know, for St. Paul tells us so, that when he first went there... Read more
The Corinthians proved to be the most trying kind of people—pupils who were confident they knew more than their teacher, children that were convinced they were better than their parents. Christians certain that they had left their apostle far behind. They had constructed their own religion for themselves, their own wisdom, their own spirituality, had brought them to the Kingdom, while Paul was still stuck fast in the mud. They knew it all, they had it all, they could do... Read more
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