Some thoughts from David Cook (current Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia) on saints. Very topical given the recent beatification of two former Popes of the Roman Catholic Church as saints last week. An excerpt: I turned up for my early morning coffee today and, helping my newsagent friend, Charlie, dropped off today’s edition …
You won’t find too many folk supporting the most strident form of prosperity gospel. However there’s a softer, less strident form which can find its way into gospel affirming churches. You’ll hear Jeremiah 29:11 and Philippians 4:13 a lot more often than John 3:16 and Matthew 6:33. It’s not that the gospel is denied. It’s …
Some recent material stating again how the ‘prosperity’ gospel is not good news, and is anti-gospel. Preaching that treats the Scriptures as a handbook to achieve health, wealth and personal fulfilment, and which treats the death and resurrection of Jesus as little more than a doorway to being able to get them is not preaching …
The proverbial expression about taking the metaphorical lemons life gives you and turning them into lemonade begs always leaves you wondering where you can consistently get that much sugar. Instead of trying to find a good perspective on a bad situation, Courtney Reissig provides the helpful perspective that sometimes Christians can only look from the …
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