Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 01003. The amount of biblical prophecy in Scripture is one of its most distinctive features, and people are often surprised when they discover just how much of the Bible is given over to it. Estimates vary depending on how you define and count it, but a frequently cited figure is that somewhere around a…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 00048. The claim that doctrine divides but Jesus unites is one of the most quoted slogans in the modern church, and one of the most quietly corrosive things a believer can be handed. It sounds humble, it sounds loving, and it lands a soft blow against anyone who dares to care about precise belief….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 16. To detect false teaching is a skill every believer needs, and not only the pastors and scholars among us. Jesus warned that false prophets would come in sheep’s clothing, and the apostles return to the theme again and again, which tells me this is ordinary equipment for ordinary Christians, not a speciality for…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 15. Progressive Christianity is a movement many believers have heard named but few could define clearly, and that vagueness is part of what makes it so difficult to respond to. It presents itself as a kinder, more thoughtful, more inclusive version of the faith, a Christianity finally grown up and freed from embarrassing old…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5. Everyone is a theologian, whether they realise it or not, and I do not say that to flatter anybody or to play with words. I say it because the moment you form any thought about God, about whether He exists, about what He is like, or about what He might want from you,…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 0. Why do I keep going to the Bible for answers when the world is full of other voices? It is a fair question, and it sits right at the heart of everything we do here. Why not simply reach for common sense, or science, or philosophy, or the accumulated wisdom of clever people,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0041. When a church begins to prize experience over doctrine, the change is rarely announced and rarely sudden. No one stands up and says they have decided to value feelings above truth. It happens by a slow shift of weight, where the test of whether something is right gradually moves from what God has…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 60202 To ask whether it is antisemitic to say the Jews killed Jesus is to raise a question that is both historical and moral, and the two have to be kept apart to answer it honestly. As a sweeping accusation that blames the Jewish people as a whole, across all generations, for having killed…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60201 The question is a classic philosophical puzzle, usually deployed as a challenge to the coherence of believing in God at all. It runs like this: if God is all-powerful, can He create a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it? If He can create it, then there is something He cannot do…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11026 A pastor who stops reading is a pastor who stops growing, and a pastor who stops growing will eventually stop feeding his congregation well. The ministry demands constant study, reflection, and the sharpening that comes from engaging with minds greater than your own. What follows is not an exhaustive list but a carefully…