Over the last twenty to thirty years the reformation doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone has been subject to reformulation by different figures. The Church of Rome and the Lutheran Church produced a joint statement about justification in the 1990’s. As much as I can tell, the document affirms that if certain …
Here at the Mount Gambier cemetery, right at the top of the driveway, stands a large wooden cross, standing three meters high, made of two posts bolted against each other. It is central, imposing, but it’s made of wood. It will not last forever. I wonder, because my mind wonders such things, that if the …
I’ve started reading Michael Horton’s Christless Christianity. In some ways it is an unremarkable book. Horton lays a charge that the US church is at risk of embracing what is termed ‘Moralistic, Theistic Deism’. In this climate the invitation to come to God is based on the desire for improvement in the individual and its …
The old saying used to go that people would have ‘roast minister’ after church on Sunday. The minister can save them the trouble though, if he is stupid enough to spend four hours outside on the first sunny day for five months and roast himself (on Monday). Anyway, enough about stupid pastors. Last week or …
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