7 Ways Not To Respond When People Leave Our Churches
This one does just what it says: it offers 7 ways we ought not to respond to people leaving our church for another one.
Tickets and Teaching: How Spurgeon Fenced the Table
This is an interesting one looking at how CH Spurgeon fenced the communion table and encouraged only those who ought to partake to join in.
Help! The wrong type of person is turning up at church!
This is an interesting and challenging one by Steve Mcalpine. But I think it particularly points at majority middle class churches. Majority working class churches in places like mine had people like this turning up for years, people who held views that majority middle class people find unpalatable and unpleasant and whose lifestyles are not vastly different to them either.
What Are the Five Solas, and Why Do They Matter?
‘What does it mean to be Reformed anyway? Where does that word come from? As might well be known, it actually comes from the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation was a time when the church was reforming itself theologically and doctrinally and even morally, trying to recover some of the core Christian truths that it had always believed. The Reformation was not about creating new truth; it was about recovering truth that had always been there but had been lost.’
Who Was Martin Luther?
This one gives a short introduction to the man.
Halloween: Power Overpowered
‘This week is Halloween; a day when the thoughts of many people might be turning to things which are scary and spooky. And of course, for most of us, scary stuff is the kind of thing that we can pick up for a little while, and then put down when we’ve had enough – before it gets too much for us. Whether it’s roller coasters, fancy dress, or horror movies, we can have a little snack on them, then leave them behind without any problem. For some people though, scariness and death aren’t something they can have a taste of for a few minutes then move on from; for many reasons, their whole life is consumed with terror. I want to share with you from Mark’s Gospel, a first-century account of the life of Jesus. In it we’ll meet a man in that kind of position; his whole life taken up with supernatural terror. Then we’ll see what happened when he came face to face with Jesus. And we’ll think about how we should respond when we come face to face with Jesus.’
From the archive: Plus ça change and clapped out cars
‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. So goes the old epigram. The more it changes, the more it stays the same. I was set to thinking about this phrase as I received yet another call from the police about another abandoned car that had dumped on our church car park.’