Equipping Christians to become disciples
I would also just mention, in passing, that in my experience people often get confused as to how exactly God can manage to resurrect people whose bodies have decayed away centuries ago. Some people’s bodies have even been cremated and so are totally obliterated. Many …
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Moreover, all of us, whether we are Christians or not, are going to be physically resurrected one day, as Jesus was – we will all be given resurrection bodies which will be physical but also eternal. Christians will be given resurrection bodies and will live …
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You and I, and everybody else, are eternal. That is the case whether we want to be or not. The Bible says that we are made in the image of God. That has many implications, but one of them is that we are eternal. This is …
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Please consider all the following passages which make clear that sin, judgment and the need to repent are major recurring themes throughout the Bible. I want to demonstrate that I am not exaggerating or basing what I say on just one or two verses, taken …
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I urge you to read what I say with caution. Do not just casually assume that what I say, or what anybody else says, must be true because it’s in a book. Check it carefully for yourself in the Bible. Be like the people of Berea …
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I have just used the word “religion”. It is a much misunderstood word. Real Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is God’s one and only way of reaching out to lost people who need His mercy and forgiveness as a free gift. “Religion” is the many different …
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In the Western world therefore we see, by and large, a spineless, and biblically illiterate church. It is too weak to be a witness to our world and too unimpressive to be able to teach or preach effectively. One could call it the ‘apparent church’. It …
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The Protestant denominations arose in the “Reformation” of the sixteenth century. They are called that because they protested against many of the false teachings and practices of Roman Catholicism. The nonconformists went even further in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and were in some ways even more …
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That vagueness was not unique to me. It is the position of most Catholics. But, I must emphasise, it is by no means confined only to the Catholic church. It is widespread in the modern Western church, throughout the denominations. Much of the Church of …
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The Roman Catholic Church is not the “original” or “true” church. It does not date back to the first century, or to the apostle Peter, as it claims to do. In fact it really began to develop properly from AD 312, when the Roman Emperor, Constantine alleged that he had …
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