Politics and Christians   ‘A Mucky Business Why Christians Should et Involved in Politics’ - its Part 1 of the author's instructive of A MuckyBusiness (IVP 2022), Why Christians Steer Clear of Politics. ’from  Part to One, and in  Part 3 ‘ Why Christians  should engage with Politics’.We need to show up and sit at the table God’s kingdom is physical as well as spiritual of Jesus  didn’t  turn away but broke his heart for us. Because faith is not private and Christians have always engaged.   Answers to these Parts, and in the various ways, are help to him ..read more

Ambrose and Classis   At the time, not only was Isaac Ambrose putting last touches to the various of his writings, as ……started in the midst of the turmoil, but he is fulfilling his duties as a land .of the Classis of Lancashire. Such were shire-wide bodies of minister of local ministers of the Gospel, and that of Lancashire and of  other shires. The minister was in the most, but also were gents who had a place, wealthy, landed and involved. According to Shaw’s account.    like Scots , and to King Charles II,  Lancashire was much nearer to Presbyterian Scotland, th ..read more

  JOHN OWEN, PREACHER   John Owen spent a good deal of his writing and preaching in Restoration England as the pastor of….. .He laboured to write on the Holy Spirit, in several  books, the chief which was A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit (1674) . In 1673, 47  years old, he was working his mammoth works on the Holy Spirit which are gathered in chapter 3 of the Goold edition of his works.  He died in 1683. For him the role of the Spirit is basically the renewal and regeneration of unregenerate, fallen, people, including the preaching of the Gospel  as the mean ..read more

  Conscience and God’s grace   In our last article, ‘The Conscience’, I ended it with the early preaching of Christ and of his cousin,  John the Baptist, calling their hearers to repentance. To come to repentance is to  become aware of one’s sin, and to resolve to keep  certain of the Lord’s commandments, which is the penitent hearer is begins  the process in which begin a new course of life. Currently the  Prime Minister, who is a great one for not to telling the truth, cancels this by an ‘apology’, the uttering of a form of words, which makes the one offend ..read more

    It is not easy to find a discussion of the conscience. Sermons in it are rare, and your church group. But it is a vital part of what Scripture  calls ‘the heart’.  It is seen in the make-up of men and women, created in the image of God. Its awareness takes us into the depth of a person, into what he or she is central and of the greatest values to that person, and in other expressions not so centrally. Yet it is also capable of behaving according to a person’s  history. ‘Conscience’ is mentioned in Scripture about forty times. It presents an index of the heart as st ..read more

    Two Kinds of Evangelical Melvin Tinker,1955 - 2021   The sudden death of Melvin Tinker, who was  born in 1955, and who has just died, is very sad. But what by God’s grace he achieved, prompts and enables  us to see clearly two versions  of evangelicalism and the Church of England at present. There is an unconditional evangelical in the Church of England who I shall refer as stickers,  and those whose adherence to the ministry in the Church of England is conditional, to  be called followers.   Stickers 1. There are congregations that hold to an ..read more

The locations of the Seven Churches   Gribben 3.The Future of the Church After this interesting and entertaining tour of the changes of one congregation of Christ in its search for a Christian culture, it may be wise to steady ourselves with a general view of  the church . So, this last time, we examine  ‘ the church and its Re-construction,  The Future of the Church’ In reading Gribben’s book, we have seen congregations of the Reformed sort, advocating different contexts of culture as they look into the future. This is how Gribben puts it in the  closing pages of hi ..read more

  A Second Look at Crawford Gribben's book   In the latest Helm’s Deep, which received a healthy interest, I suggested that in Crawford’s book there is a treatment  of chapters of some of the forces that worked to bring about the culture of Christian Reconstruction in Moscow, Idaho in the last generation, in separate chapters. The first was entitled ‘Migration’, the second  ‘Eschatology’ Eschatology is the study of the last things. There are various schools of eschatology, and it means that the thinking of reconstruction takes place  in the jostling between postmillena ..read more

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  Assurance(s)  For any Christian it is no hardship to sing Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine Heir of salvation, purchase of God Born of His spirit, washed in His blood   The early Reformers confessed justification by faith, full sto. As for example, in ‘The Justification of Man’, Article 11 of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England; We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works and desertings; Wherefore,  that we are justified by Faith only, i ..read more