A atheist on being evangelized
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I find this very moving. 5 minutes, but worth it. Penn gets a Bible
“A single note hanging there, unwavering…”
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In the film Amadeus, Salieri gives a wonderful description of Mozart's music. You can listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxgZcMGmkkI It reminds me in many ways of the first two chapters of Luke's gospel. Luke tells a story that will eventually record the ...
On Baptism
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »(The elderly pastor, Rev John Ames, watching his young son and a friend playing in a sprinkler) "The sprinkler is a magnificent invention because it exposes raindrops to the sunshine. That does occur in nature, but it is rare. When I ...
Romans 5:12-26
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As you would have heard if you were there on Sunday, I tend to go with Henri Blocher's understanding of Romans 5:12-14. The problem is the relationship between the "one man's sin" and the fact that "all sinned." Does this ...
Would anyone miss us?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »"If Unichurch disappeared tomorrow, would anyone miss us?" This was the very clarifying question I was throwing around with one of the brothers from Claremont Baptist Church last week. If our churches were to pull up stumps, would there be ...
In which the Interns discuss theology in Rory’s study
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Photos from our weekly interns meeting yesterday. Discussing theology in the study--this is what being a Unichurch Intern is all about!
Death by Love
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »On Sunday the teaching was on Romans 3:21-31 and, as a consequence, on the death of Jesus. We looked at the three big word pictures Paul throws us to try and get our head around what was going on on ...
“Please, turn in your Bible to the Apocrypha, Wisdom of Solomon 13:1″
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »"What fools are men who live in ignorance of God, and who from the good things before their eyes could not learn to know him who really is, and failed to recognize the artificer they observed through his works." Wisdom ...
News to remember
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Getting reading for this Sunday's talk from Romans 1:1-17. Theme seems to be the gospel, which means "good news" or possibly "major news" or even "serious news." One of the features of modern life is that we get heaps of news, ...
MYC next week
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Next week I am speaking at the Christian Unions' Mid Year Conference. Three talks written, two more to go. Topic is ethics. Really looking forward to it. T
