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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]