Not every lesson we learn from great figures in Christian history flows from their strengths. Here’s a link to a sobering and challenging post about John Wesley’s marriage to Molly Vazeille. It’s not a hatchet job. All of our heroes have imperfections. In some ways their attainments make their failings all the more confusing and …
What does The Creedal Imperative (Carl Trueman, Crossway, 2012) promise? In six succinct chapters, Carl Trueman: outlines the current cultural trends which deter people from confessionalism; outlays a biblical case for creeds and confessions; recounts the way creeds and confessions were (and remain) indispensable formularies in combating theological errors in early church history; overviews four …
This link features a photo essay of seven creepy abandoned churches. We know that it is a community of Christians and not a building which constitute a church. Sometimes history and demography mean that some locations have served their purpose. But looking at photos such as these causes me to remember that without faithful mission …
As part of our Sunday worship this Reformation Day we sang the paraphrase of Psalm 100, All People That On Earth Do Dwell. Of course we sing it to the tune Old One Hundreth by Louis Bourgeois This links us with the church of the Reformation, back in the 1500’s. A conceit of mine is …
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