-
Religion is self-centred
Religion is fundamentally self-centred; it hopes that doing good will impress God enough to earn salvation. Christianity, however, is not self-centred but God-centred. It calls us to surrender to God and to die with Christ in order to be raised by the Spirit for works of service. Phil MooreClick to TweetFrom the book “Straight to…
-
Cheap Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian leader in the German opposition to Adolf Hitler, wrote a similar warning a few years before he died in a Nazi prison: Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church… Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance… Cheap…
-
Fellowship
There are no requests or petitions in fellowship as there are in prayer. If I asked “Would you please bring me some food?” That’s a request. But fellowship is more personal. “How are you today? Let’s have breakfast together!” That’s fellowship Benny HinnClick to TweetFrom the book “Good Morning Holy Spirit” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on…
-
Cynicism
We can be cynical to,; we simply dress it up in Christian clothes. We find it easy to mock our parents (what’s the point of these outdated spiritual traditions?), to despise theologians (what do they know in their ivroy towers?) to despise church leaders (what do they know about the real world?), to despise fellow…
-
World is changing fast
The world is changing. Fast. And not just politics, technology and communication, but our whole culture, morality and attitudes. Christians living in Western culture have enjoyed the benefit of being in a world which largely shared our assumptions about what is fundamentally right and wrong. We can no longer assume that is the case. Vaughan…