Are the government really going to make you report Sunday school attendance?

I was going to respond to this same article myself. However, Dave Williams has done a great job here.

The vibe shift: what does it mean for the gospel?

‘When the vibe is in, and all the ducks are lining up in a row, the solution for humans is not to be more conservative or to be aligned fully with a natural law understanding of what a human body is; the solution is to be born again. Hell will be populated by conservatives and progressives, each gnashing their teeth at God for his refusal to align with their vibe.’

Thank you gracious church members

I suspect we (by which I mean, I) probably don’t write or say this kind of thing enough. But it is true. Thank you, indeed, to gracious church members.

Stop before the fight begins

‘Once you open the door of an argument, it’s like a pinprick in a dam. At first water trickles through, but the pressure spreads and before you know it, the whole wall collapses under a raging river.’

Committed church goers give five times more to charity

‘The research found that self-identified Christians gave on average £124 per month to charity, representing 5% of their income, while committed Christians on average gave £314 per month, representing 11% of their income. Both figures are well above the overall British average of £65 per person per month being given to charity.’

But it is good

‘I believe if we wait long enough the Holy Spirit will begin to reveal more and more of the good in the surprising, sometimes devastating, ways that God sanctifies us. God’s will is so much more complicated than we imagine. Nothing that happens is just for one purpose–there is so much meaning behind everything God does that if we could track the endless purposes in just one circumstance that He brings into our lives, we wouldn’t have the brain power to understand them all. But this I know is true: one of the purposes of that unexpected turn that your life just took is to make you holy.’

From the archive: another odd theological question that has suddenly become important

‘I am not a proponent of the Christians must only and always be buried view. I do not think cremation is a problem. For me, there are three essential questions to satisfy. First, does the Bible demand burial? Second, if burial isn’t demanded, is cremation forbidden? Thirdly, if cremation isn’t expressly forbidden, what do we communicate about the value of the body by choosing one over the other?’