“This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.”
Jeremiah 7:27 b
As I was working through Robert Murray McCheyne’s bible reading plan this verse really got my attention. What really got my attention was its immediate relevance and application for [...]
When I first came to know the Lord Jesus Christ I did so through a movement which did not believe in the present day continuation of ’sign’ gifts such as tongues, healings, exorcisms and workings of miracles (1 Cor 12-14). Through my reading of scripture I could see no real evidence that the N.T writers expected [...]
These are my notes from a message I preached at Johnstone Baptist last month.
Faith To Soar Higher, When Tested By Fire
1 Peter 1:1-2
1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through [...]
It always amazes me how many evangelical believers I talk to who seem to be uncertain about the role in which God intends scripture to play in the Christian’s life. Time and time again, I encounter believers within the evangelical and charismatic movements who are convinced that we cannot speak of God in absolute terms. Most of these [...]
I’ve never been comfortable with the common evangelistic use of ’sinners prayers’. Even before I affirmed, in a conscious way, ‘the doctrines of grace’, I had my concerns about this method of Christian Initiation.
It seemed to me that many where zealous to get unsaved people to simply ‘ask Jesus into their life’ and if [...]
