"Our job is to represent Christ but it is never to replace him." Tim Chester, 1 Samual for You... continue reading
Pixelated Poison - A poem by Dai Hankey...... continue reading
It's wedding season, and—partly inspired by the TV show Married at First Sight*—I’ve had a genius idea for getting evangelical believers up the aisle in 2016. Arranged marriages. And I'm only slightly joking.** Let me explain why.... continue reading
To start with, this isn’t about surviving the summer.
After all, if we lived in a place where summer means escalating military conflict… or heatwave-fuelled violence… or crop-ravaging drought… or torrential rain and floods… or throat-constricting pollution.. or no break from grinding 16-hour working days seven days a week… or no change to intimidation, harassment, economic oppression, physical attacks, fear of a knock at the door, simply for being a Christian…... continue reading
Having finished my first year at college two months ago it feels like I’m well into the summer now. Living back at home with your parents takes some getting used to. But since being back I’ve concluded that surviving the summer as a student really isn’t that difficult.
The answer: a laptop.... continue reading
Why is it that we find it difficult to share the gospel with others?
Sometimes it’s because we have become distracted. There are so many things that can push the need to tell others from its central place in our calling as individuals and churches.... continue reading
Can we really appreciate modern science and be a Christian? Doesn’t one cancel out the other?
Here’s the surprising thing: there doesn’t have to be a full-blown battle between science and Christianity.
We need science—it gives us practical benefits that help us live well. We need science to help us know well—science begins to help us understand the cosmos.
But let me suggest that we also need Christianity to live well. Christianity is all about Jesus, who claimed to be the author of life. If that’s the case, then what he has to say about life is worth listening to.... continue reading
It’s a huge question, isn’t it? Hardly a day goes by when we don’t come across suffering. Devastation caused by earthquakes and tsunamis… millions living in poverty… children being abused… family breakdowns… bullying… people suffer. We suffer. So it’s right to say to God: “God, if you’re there, why don’t you do something about it?”... continue reading
The Good Book Company Team setting up for The Gospel Coalition National Conference 2015.
Watch the live stream of the conference: http://live.tgc.org/
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D.A. Carson, in his Foreword to Rico Tice’s new book Honest Evangelism, writes:
“Christians are increasingly dismissed as intellectually inferior, narrow and blind, who should be ignored and, perhaps, suppressed … In a polarized culture where Christian convictions are not in good odor, where are courage and joy in Christian witness to be found? What does Christian witness look like—both in the hard times when the mockery becomes savage, and in the good times when people are transformed by the gospel?”
The progress of the States, and indeed the whole of the West, toward a post- Christendom directed by increasingly assertive secularism and atheism represents both a challenge and an opportunity for gospel-loving churches. In a way that American believers have not had to contend with for generations, to live as a Christian—... continue reading
