February 2012
3 posts
The Liberal Church and Pharaseeism
The recent debates in the Church of England concerning, essentially, how we read the Word of God has encouraged me to write this post.
The fundamental question before us is not whether the Church is to be relevant or loving. It isn’t really about thinking “what would Jesus do” in acting out of love and tolerance for one issue, and “in keeping with what we know now”...
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
A number of reasons have encouraged me to write this post. And in all likeliness it will be exceedingly long, so may have to evolve into a 2 part piece.
But it is an important theological and pastoral issue, so I shall address it.
This post shall be concerned with what is the role of men and women in the Church. Later posts will probably be more specifically looking at Biblical manhood, but they...
A totally unsubstantiated theory concerning Men...
I have a wee theory that I want to test out. It relates to men and the “chickified” modern worship music. It is totally untested, maybe untestable, and quite possibly very wrong. But its worth a shot.
Now I am a little biased. I am a little old fashioned. I like hymns. I like organs. Granted, I wish I could combine those with a little hand raising (1 Timothy 2:8, Psalm 134:2 etc). But...
