King Canute was an English King in the 10th Century who is recorded as having governed very wisely and as having done a lot of good for his people. However, the story (legendary or not) is that he became so flattered by those around him as to his greatness that he believed he could control … Continue reading King Canute and the Unstoppable Tide
The Unchanging Changer
All who claim to be Christians will say they worship God The degree to which we worship God however depends on the extent to which we actually know Him-or to put it another way which ‘god’ do we actually worship? If our knowledge of God is limited, defective or distorted by our own ideas, then … Continue reading The Unchanging Changer
“Crying Jesus Tears”
At a recent gathering I attended a young international university student told us how his heart was breaking, and I started to wonder why. Was it because of some personal loss, a relationship break up or death of a loved one? No he told us, his heart was breaking over the spiritual status of three … Continue reading “Crying Jesus Tears”
A Problem With Leadership
The Barbarians are at the gates, the gates of western civilization. The 'Christendom'-founded and shaped civilization we call 'the West', denuded by the leaching out of its gospel underpinnings; its foundation of the Rock replaced by Post modern relativism and so no match for the flood of alternative 'truths' whether liberal humanism, radical Islam or … Continue reading A Problem With Leadership
St Lukewarms- The Concrete Truck with a Holden Cruze Engine
When I was studying civil engineering at university many years ago, one of the requirements of the course was that we got some engineering-related employment in the long summer vacations. So I got a job as a concrete sampler with a ready-mix concrete company. This involved going out to construction sites and taking samples of … Continue reading St Lukewarms- The Concrete Truck with a Holden Cruze Engine
A Brave New World of Nothing
So we come once again to that annual festival of the ‘celebration of nothing’, otherwise known as New Year, an artificial date with no meaning (it is not even midwinter). As we do so I am reminded once again of Aldous Huxley the writer of “Brave New World” a story of a futuristic, totalitarian and … Continue reading A Brave New World of Nothing
The More the Lights the More Darkness Deepens
While driving through the suburbs of our cities in the weeks leading up to Christmas one cannot but help notice the relatively recent but increasing phenomenon of the decorating of houses with lights. These are often highly ornate, creative (and expensive) displays, such that they become tourist attractions creating traffic jams in narrow suburban streets … Continue reading The More the Lights the More Darkness Deepens
Have a Very ‘Peaceful’ Christmas
Well it’s Christmas, as you may have noticed. I could use the opportunity here for a tirade against all the materialism, consumerism and shopping insanity I suppose. Perhaps not however, for I believe that the battle against the ‘Babylonian Captivity’ of Christmas is probably largely lost. For Christmas is well and truly captured by ‘Babylon’, … Continue reading Have a Very ‘Peaceful’ Christmas
Unbounded Church-Teaching ‘Babies and Bathwater’
Unbounded Church is an idea, the idea that the church needs to be set free from the rigid, cumbersome and change-averse ‘Christendom’ influenced forms and structures in order to be - ‘A church as we haven’t known it for a society as we haven’t known it' This is an idea based on the belief … Continue reading Unbounded Church-Teaching ‘Babies and Bathwater’
This Present Bondage-The ‘god’ of Church ‘Form’
One of the more confronting stories in the bible, it could even be described as a horror story, is the vision God gave to the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 10). The picture is one of the utter horror (to Jewish eyes) of the Glory of God leaving the Jerusalem temple, the place where God symbolically … Continue reading This Present Bondage-The ‘god’ of Church ‘Form’
