Merry Christmas 2014
Recently I have been thinking much about God's creation. More specifically, God's good creation, as affirmed in Genesis 1–2. And it is from this that I want to encourage you this Christmas. You are...
View ArticleDo Christians Worship the Cross?
Some time ago a friend told me of a Jewish friend of his whom he invited to attend a church service. "I'm sorry," said his friend, "but I cannot go into a church. We [Jews] believe that idolatry is...
View ArticleRecent Discoveries in Contemporary Christian Music
Growing up as a Christian teenager, I was very much into the "Jesus Culture": the music, the clothes, the paraphernalia, the books, the whole lot. I have since "settled down", even developing an...
View ArticleChristianity's Killswitch
Christianity is unique amongst world religions in that it explicitly provides a way through which it can be destroyed. Here is how. A killswitch is a mechanism whereby a dangerous systwm can...
View ArticleReflections on Christian Loneliness
I previously wrote an article on Christian singleness. It highlighted a metaphorical elephant in the room—that while there is an expectation to be in a relationship and settle down, this does not...
View ArticleMerry Christmas 2015
It is Christmas time again: a time of goodwill, charity and, of course, gifts. These all simbolise (at least in part, whether one realises it or not) what God gave humanity: that is, Jesus Christ. The...
View ArticleThe Beggar and the Caveman Christian
In his poem The Beggar, Tatamkhulu Afrika, a devout Muslim, writes of one day going into the city for his day's business. On his way he encounters a beggar who, naturally, asks him for money. The...
View ArticleThe Destruction of the Jewish Temple and the End of Animal Sacrifice
In the year A.D. 70, less than 40 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah, Jerusalem was conquered by the Romans and utterly destroyed—even the magnificent Jewish Temple therein....
View ArticlePerspective on "the Gift of Singleness"
You have heard it before, especially if you are single, or have been for a long time: the "gift of singleness". It should be treasured, appreciated, cherished. (While it lasts, of course!) During one...
View ArticleYou, Christian
You, Christian,You, follower of the true and living Christ, you need to remember that we are strangers and foreigners and aliens in this world. This world is hostile towards us. This is the natural...
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