How often have you caught yourself making a judgement about someone without knowing them or speaking to them? And conversely, how often have we been misjudged by others, with no opportunity to set the record straight? Most of us operate from more than one motive. Something we do may be well intended or have a […]
Our 35 year old VW camper van is due its MoT next week, it’s always an interesting time, will it pass or not? Most years it goes straight through, but just last week it developed a weird fault that took all my skills as an RN trained engineer to diagnose. Some electric bits worked others […]
Challenge: The stories about Jesus’ resurrection are borrowed from earlier myths in various ancient religions I don’t know about you, but I seem to bump into this objection from time to time, particularly online. The basic thrust of this objection levelled at the Christian faith is that the story of a god’s resurrection is nothing […]
Big questions require big answers, but sometimes to get going we all need a pointer in the right direction. Andy Bannister and Nathan Betts, who work for RZIM Canada, have created a series of videos answering dozens of the hard questions that Christians are asked about their faith. They have already produced 30 answers and the […]
“it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.” (Luke 1:3,4, ESV) Luke, when composing his gospel – his account through eye-witness testimony of the life of Jesus […]
Can we know anything about God outside of the Bible or the historical record? That’s what we’re looking into with this mini-series. What does the information we know about the Universe tell us? Where does the evidence lead? In this first of three classical arguments for the existence of God we want to suggest that […]
Richard Dawkins famously said that faith is belief without evidence. That’s not how the Oxford English Dictionary would describe faith, but the phrase has stuck and so the idea that there is no evidence for God has memed its way through our culture. We’ve talked before about the difference between evidence and proof. Evidence is […]
I want to introduce you to a useful book. It’s written by a good friend of mine. Jon Morrison is Canadian, slightly cheeky, sharp-minded and very easy to get on with because he’s mastered the art of not taking himself very seriously. Jon and I studied together for a period and he’s since returned to […]
Someone said to me the other day, ‘Well, you have to believe in the resurrection because you’re a Christian.’ What he meant, essentially, was that because of the tribe I belong to, there are certain things that I just take blindly on faith. In fact, he got it the wrong way round. I don’t believe […]
‘Prove to me that God exists’, a bloke I was chatting to at a bar said to me. I was drinking a lime alcopop that I’d been given on the house. It was disgusting, and my cheeks were cowering inwards by the second. Whilst my drink was uncommon and grotesque, his request was not. One […]
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