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Nicos Kaloyirou

Nicos Kaloyirou is a lawyer in Adelaide

My life in Messiah (Ephesians 1:4; 2:10)

I thought I heard his footsteps faintly like a cool wind rustling through my mind when as a young boy. Jesus called me by my name; I heard him whisper […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 17th March 2022

The Subtle Art of Deception – C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters (Part 3)

One of the devil’s most subtle temptations is dealt with in Letter 7 where Screwtape instructs Wormwood concealing the presence of devils. Moderns mostly regard devils as comic figures in red tights. […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 31st August 2021

The Subtle Art of Deception: C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters (Part 2)

In Letter 4 Screwtape covers the subject of prayer and instructs Wormwood how to tie his ‘patient’ up in knots. He does this by trying to get him to conjure […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 28th August 2021

The Subtle Art of Deception: C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters (Part 1)

C. S. Lewis published his much acclaimed Screwtape Letters in 1942. Drawing on his own long experience of conversion from atheism to Christianity, he constructed a story of a senior Devil named […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 26th August 2021

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Paul’s Argument in Galatians is Covenantal

Before his conversion on the Damascus road (Acts 9.1-19), the apostle Paul would have found the idea of a crucified messiah abhorrent because of Deuteronomy 21.23 (‘for he that is […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 6th July 2021

Paul’s Journal (Acts 9.3; 2 Timothy 4.7)

God is light with us, God is light behind us, whispered into time. Is his light abiding? Springing as a clay bird, his wondrous voice encircling, strikes me like a […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 18th May 2021

Like a Flower in the Wind -The Life of Charlotte Bronte

‘There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering,  indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 6th April 2021

Social Commentary

Freudian Psychology and its Opposition to the Gospel of Jesus Christ

According to Christian theology, sin and guilt are the result of Adam’s transgression of God’s moral law, and are passed down and become ours individually by imputation. Sin can only […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 13th March 2021

Faith Has Its Reasons: The Life of Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was born in 1623 at Clermont – Ferrand, Auvergne, in France. He was home-schooled by his father Etienne, a lawyer who was also an able mathematician and physicist […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 23rd December 2020

Jesus beyond the Talmud

A Jew’s pattern of moral behaviour involves absolute adherence to the literal directives of Torah (the Five books of Moses) especially the 613 mitzvot or commandments as classified by Maimonides […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 12th December 2020

Amazing Grace: Luther’s Lectures on Romans

After receiving his doctorate in Theology in 1512, Luther was appointed professor of Moral Theology in the University of Wittenberg. He started his lectures on Romans in 1515, after spending […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 29th October 2020

Devotional

Our God of Immeasurable Grace

(Luke 8.2; Mark 15.40; John 20.11; Gal.2.20) Tell me who is he I see walking gentlylike the dew before dawn in the garden,while the fearless mockingbird sings its delights beneath […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 23rd August 2020

Devotional

In my Soul lies a sweet contentment

Stay and watch with meO Gentle EmmanuelIn the depth of my spiritThough I can only see your faceThrough your obtuse glassThe mysteries and playthings of GodThe dark stars and spheresand […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 25th July 2020

Better than Star Wars – Bunyan’s Holy War

“In my Travels, as I walked through many Regions and Countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous Continent of Universe; a very large and spacious Country it is. It […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 24th April 2020

Return to Eden: Philipp Melanchthon’s Exposition of Genesis 3.15

God originally placed Adam and Eve in Eden, which is literally a place of ‘delight’. After sin entered in, in Genesis 3, God exiled Adam and Eve. In between these […]

By Nicos Kaloyirou Posted on 20th January 2020

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