Recently I came across this interview with Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones. I have heard of him, but don’t know all that much about him. I sat to watch this video and mused on how many similarities there are between the issues he challenges at the time of the interview – over 40 years ago – […]
Read More MLJ On The Problem With Modern ManFrom the outset let me say a positive word about entertaining. That which entertains can genuinely be a source of pleasure to the soul. Someone who sings well, someone who has an ability to keep people glued to their seats by their oratory, someone of that sort, can be a medicine and a needed tonic […]
Read More Edify or Entertain?It’s not something I mention here often. If at all. I preach. OK, when I say that, what I mean is that in some gatherings, at some times, I’ve been asked to outline a monologue to engage with listeners about some aspect of the Christian life. It doesn’t happen often and to be fair in […]
Read More My Greatest Sermon EverFollowing the previous blog entry about what the church is not, it makes sense to consider what it could be. Consider the video and the questions held within it. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More Is This The Church? May I Refer You To What It Could BeI have found of late that I am rather fascinated with the Body of Christ. This might be a bit like saying that I have found of late that I am rather fascinated by football. Which is like ‘duh, tell me something new’. What I mean then, is that lately the issue of what the […]
Read More Is This The Church? May I Refer You To What It Is NotOne elastic band was gazing admiring other elastic bands he saw whizzing around. They’d be flying from one end to another and in their flying they looked to be having the time of their lives. So happy soaring in the wind. He wished he could fly like that. One day he felt himself being stretched […]
Read More The Flying Elastic BandYou want to know how this started? Blame King Arthur Sido. It is really worth me mentioning what a huge admirer I am of his blog. I enjoy taking time to read his perspective and passion about the things of God. On this occasion he posted a really cool video of N.T. Wright talking about […]
Read More Being Truly HumanGod is interesting. Here He is, the Holy One, for whom the angels can only declare that aspect of His character. As such He is the truest and greatest expression of purity in the universe. He abhors anything that is unlike Him in His holiness. What does He do? Sends the Lamb without blemish and […]
Read More Dealing With DefilingThe congregation had just finished singing the chorus “He Is Lord”. There had been the usual whooping and hollering and praises onto God for the nature of the song. Hands were raised and the occasional ‘hallelujah’ broke out. The saints were feeling good. The speaker seemed to be out of step with the mood of […]
Read More Why Call Him Lord When …It’s been interesting in my life recently. Back in my school days the school gave me a brown folder called a National Record of Achievement within which I could put all my school reports and certificates and the such like to mark the passing of my time at school. My beloved wife dug it out, […]
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