BBC Radio Devon – Pause for Thought: Storm Centres During the Pause for Thought recently, I’ve been talking about 7 places I have been to: Storm-centres of history. Today, we will go to Geneva. Geneva is a beautiful city. I don’t know if that was the case half a millennia ago, but back in the mid-16th... Continue Reading →
One of my favourite places to go to is St. Fagans in Cardiff. When my three children were children in the 1990's, my wife and I virtually lived there - I mean, we took the children there a lot, not that we went there to escape them! We went back a year ago with our adopted fourth... Continue Reading →
"If you get to the place as an individual in a family or in leadership in a local church, you get to the place where the Gospel is that which is assumed, but which you're not particularly excited about, the next generation puts the Gospel to one side. It assumes it too but doesn't really... Continue Reading →
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 →
I came across this brilliant piece in Michael Bird's Evangelical Theology, an excellent tome in its own right, and one I have mentioned before on this blog, here, here and here. Without the Gospel was penned by John Calvin as a preface to Pierre Robert Olivétan’s 1534 translation of the New Testament. I've used it in... Continue Reading →
John Calvin commented on the problem of Christians giving up on meeting together (Hebrews 10:25), as they have done from the beginning until now, and we all know churches and maybe even our own friends and family who have done such a thing, he said, “There is so much peevishness in almost everyone, that individuals,... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 