Should you go to church on holiday?

I appreciated this one from Tim Wilson. We also aim to go to church whenever we’re on holiday for most these reasons (and a few others).

Is same-sex marriage an issue of equality?

Andrew Bunt is often told, as a same-sex attracted man, that traditional Christian teaching on marriage unfairly discriminates against him. Andrew asks (and answers) whether that suggestion is right or fair.

Christians are not totally depraved

‘The phrase “total depravity” refers to a person’s sinful condition outside of the mercy of Christ. So, after conversion, is a sinner still totally depraved?’

Intergenerational Friendships In Church

We need intergenerational friendships. They not only display the gospel to the world, they help us fulfil specific commands of Christ.

Why’d the pigs have to die?

Have you ever wondered why – when Jesus has healed a demon-possessed man – some pigs suddenly charge off a cliff and into the sea? What has that got to do with the story? What is Mark trying to tell us? Mike Leake offers an answer.

Gospel irony: prevailing in unlikely places

‘If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take this one step further. It was this world of Roman power into which Christ came, in which the Apostles ministered, in which the New Testament authors wrote, and in which Christianity came into being. And to all of those things, Rome stood opposed, violently opposed. How delightfully ironic, in light of all of this, are the words of Paul in Philippians 1:12-13.’

From the archive: Don’t make what is already hard harder than it has to be

‘Evangelism is hard. Let’s not soft peddle it – I find it hard, everyone else I know who does it finds it hard and the people who won’t do it typically refuse because its hard. Without doubt, evangelism is difficult. It is relationally tough, emotionally draining, culturally awkward, socially odd at best and barely acceptable in polite company at worst. Pressing through all of that and still trying to hold it together to credibly explain the gospel to someone in words they might understand is most definitely hard. That is not, therefore, a reason not to do it.’