Guest post by Theologian Dr Rob Knowles from a Theology Night session in 2014. Keeping in Step with the Spirit What does it mean to “keep in step with the Spirit”? In Galatians 5:13-26, Paul writes the following: 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to... Continue Reading →
BONUS: The Dragon EXPOSED in The System
The previous four posts have attempted to articulate the what and how of the principalities and powers - those often unseen but felt realities that play out behind the things and events and experiences of human history - and I have enjoyed the chattering behind the scenes with those from all over the world who... Continue Reading →
Heaven: ‘The deeper tale about a bloody King who won the holy war’
I've walked down the road where the devil's been; Where the kids have seen things they should never have seen. And the ancient stone that knows the deeper tale; About a bloody game, they call the holy war. Heaven is my home and they'll be no shame. I've walked down a road where... Continue Reading →
The Flying Spagetti Monster
Guest Post by Dr David Matcham The Risky Leap of Faith into the Unknown One of the common arguments wheeled out against religious belief by those of the scientific positivist mould is that religious belief is opposed to scientific evidence, that, indeed, “faith” is an essentially anti-rational adherence to that which is believed in the... Continue Reading →
Where He is, there I shall also be!
Thoughts of unworthiness can come and go. Sometimes they stay and hover in our mind as though they are the things that matter most, that they are the truth to us being us, or me being me. We lie to ourselves, thinking that this must be what God really thinks about us! Well, I for... Continue Reading →
The Visitor and Inquisitor
One day, Jesus comes back. He wanders through the streets and squares of a southern town, where just the day before 100 so-caleld heretics had been burnt at the stake. The story-teller narrates, 'He appeared quietly, unostentatiously, and yet - strange, this - everyone recognizes him. Saying nothing, he passes among them with a smile... Continue Reading →
The Rise and Fall of God
Ascension Day: ‘The Rise and Fall of God’ Luke 24:36-53 (Acts 1:4-11) Ascension Day! I know, I know, most of us are like: Say that again! Most of us who have been Christians for some time now and heard of this strange thing called ‘The Ascension of Jesus,’ but, if truth be told, we treat it like... Continue Reading →
Christianity Builds Me
Guest post by Dr Rob Knowles: How is belief related to desire? "We may indeed want to believe in something, and therefore believe in it. Thus, for example, we want to think that we are good, righteous, not that bad, better than average, not as bad as so and so, morally more advanced than Daily... Continue Reading →
About that baby in the manger…
"If Jesus' whole life to us is God's word to us, then he is God's word not only when he is intelligible, not only when he makes clear sense - not only when he is graspable and useable by us. He is also God's word when he is wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in... Continue Reading →
A Short Treatise on Temptation
This is a guest post by my bro David Matcham on the nature of Temptation. Temptation: How are we to understand the biblical concept of temptation? Is there such a thing as a Biblical concept of temptation? How does temptation manifest itself in and through the Biblical text. The primary source of information in the... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 