Article by Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Syria from the UK Telegraph. An excerpt: We hear the thunder of bombs and the rattle of gunfire, but we don’t always know what is happening. It’s hard to describe how chaotic, terrifying and psychologically difficult it is when you have no idea what …
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 …
Paul Tripp relates an incident involving mobile phone lost on the wrong side of a border that evoked an all-too-familiar reaction and the familiar feeling that those of us who counsel others about the security of resting in the sovereignty of God get when we find that we don’t want to accept our own advice. …
From Jacob Tilton’s free four-psalm Advent EP How Long, O Lord? – Psalms For Advent. The album notes remind us: “Advent is a season of waiting. It is the silence before the shout, the fast before the feast, the sigh before the smile.” That sums up our current experience pretty well. As we continue to …
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