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Monthly Archives: July 2009

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Amaharo: Silver and Gold Have I None

This is a post I’ve put up at the Emerging Africa site. See the conversation there at www.emergingafrica.info. Note that I don’t consider myself to be emerging or Emergent (or anything for that matter besides Christian) but I converse with…

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Amaharo and abiblical

I’ve started (at last) listening to the audio of the Amaharo conference, which was held in June in South Africa. Roger Saner has very kindly put up the recordings of the event here The talks I’ve listened to so far…

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Press On

Forgetting what lies behind, straining forward to what lies ahead (Phil 3: 1-16) This was the subtitle of my sermon “Press On” I preached this last Sunday at my church, Church on the Square. You can download the sermon here….

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That Hideous Strength

Shannon (my wife) and I have been reading CS Lewis’ Sci-Fi trilogy in the last few weeks together. All I can say right now is wow. Lewis did an amazing job with this trilogy, I don’t know why it isn’t…

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The Spiritual Dangers of Hyper-Fundamentalism

In response to some debates I’ve taken with various fundamentalist groups (mainly ‘discernment’ websites I’ve stumbled across recently) I’ve decided to post an explanation of why I view hyper-fundamentalism (an extreme type of fundamentalism) in Christian circles as spiritually harmful…

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Historical Validity of Jesus’ Resurrection

Personally, I think that the historical validity of Jesus’ Resurrection builds the strongest case for Him being the Son of God, and all the basic stuff that Christians believe. Over at ilovephilosophy.com (philosophy forums) I’ve heard a couple of atheists,…