It is fitting that on the day that my wife and I celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary I put on here a piece concerning how the husband and wives should be getting on. It’s linked to roles of males and females. It has been a bone of contention for some especially surrounding certain scripture references. […]
Read More Talking Point: A Marriage – How Do The Husbands Relate To Wives?As you know, I’ve got a lot of time for John Piper. He’s been influential in a lot of my thinking when it comes to scripture, worship and knowing God. For all that I want you to hear how he responds to the Sabbath question and think it through. It’s a talking point. For His […]
Read More Talking Point: What Does The Sabbath Mean?Just a quick one for you, click the link to watch/hear a perspective on inter-racial marriage from a guy I admire, John Piper. Do not just consider it from the perspective of marriage, consider carefully the implications for church living in a multi-cultural society, with a mission to reach those of different ethnicities. Consider those […]
Read More On Inter-Racial MarriagesSometimes life as a Christian can be performance-based. Especially in the type of churches that recognise a need to be more lively and participatory there can almost be schizophrenic approach to faith. I know because it’s a struggle I went through especially during my years at university. There are the things to be said and […]
Read More Beware The DisconnectIf we are to take this clip seriously it should have tumultuous effects on the life before Christ to the life in Christ. Not sure if people see that difference though. Yet if we take the much celebrated and talked about love of God seriously, how is it going to be any different? For His […]
Read More What Is Love?Don’t take my word for it, consider these words of encouragement from Tim Keller and Mark Driscoll and then by all means go and invest some time and some money and the rest of your life in pursuing the desire for God well written in John Piper’s Desiring God. For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More Why You Should Read Desiring GodPassionate words as ever from the man John Piper on what it must mean for a follower of Jesus Christ to live unashamed. Looking at the Apostle Paul and primarily at our ultimate example Jesus Himself, these are words to help wake us up to how we can get through life living by the words […]
Read More Sermon Jam: What It Means To Be UnashamedDefining love gets people into trouble – that’s especially the case when your definition of love is wrong. So some people might think that a loving God would not do anything that appears aggressive or the like. Check Piper’s talk on the subject of why genuine love hates and come to the conclusion again that […]
Read More Genuine Love HatesSo I spent February in the book of Matthew and March going through Proverbs. April sees a break from the month long series on a particular theme. There might be little themes cropping up and the occasional mini-series, but it’s a breather, to get some odd bits and pieces that rattling along in the mental […]
Read More Don’t Take It For Granted – What Is Prayer?The problem of evil is something I’ve been grappling on and off since we started talking about it at a Religious Education class I had when I was about 14. It was that golden question that has perplexed for years that typifies the problem – If God is good how can He allow such evil […]
Read More Is This What I Believe? Everything Predetermined
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