Why I wrote “Jesus Crushes Sin”
My book, Jesus Crushes Sin, is described as “a down-to-earth, Jesus-centred holiness for those who keep losing.” This tag-line explains why I wrote the book, and why I think I had to write it.
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My writing goals for the next twelve months
Hitting deadlines as a writer isn’t always easy. I was supposed to finish my supernatural thriller The Butcher’s Shadow by June this year, after which I was going to pick up writing the sequel to my fantasy book When Twins War. Neither of those happened, because we writers tend to get easily distracted. I picked …
Dirty Christians, Dirty Pastors, and Dirty Jesus
(Picture credit — here) Work has been keeping me incredibly busy and it’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but I was stirred enough to write something after reading another one of John Ellis’s interviews, so during my lunch break today I thought I’d quickly slap something together. Those who know Ellis will know he …
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All Those Sins are Washed Away
One of the hardest things to believe in Christianity is that, quite simply, all our sins are forgiven and washed away through simply asking God to forgive us. We complicate this endlessly. But the Bible is emphatic — our sins are washed away by the blood of the Lamb. If they are washed away when …
The Devil: You Can’t Be Serious
One of the things that I have struggled with in my own faith, and I know others struggle with in regards to my faith, is this thing of a being called the Devil, or Satan. See what 1 John 3:8b says: “The reason the Son of God (Jesus Christ) appeared was to destroy the works …
The Forgiveness of Sins: It’s for Everyone
(Picture courtesy of Andrew Errington) I believe that non-Christians (please excuse the term) can receive forgiveness from God for sins and wrongdoings just by simply asking, if they want forgiveness because they’re sorry for those sins. If you aren’t a Christian you may think that God only forgives people who lead a religious life, if …
Stoning — What was God Thinking?
Not exactly the most pleasant of topics this, but it was milling around my mind this morning. God commanded in the Old Testament that people be stoned to death for various sins. Stoning is an incredibly brutal way to die, and it seems rather crazy that God should ask people be stoned — sometimes for …
Original Sin and The Sinful Nature pt. 3 : Sex, sexuality and homosexuality
In pt. 2 of my ‘original sin’ blogs, I said that I would get to pt. 3 the following week. That certainly didn’t happen! But, I guess I felt that the real jist of what I wanted to say was said, and pt. 3 would serve as a summary. Actually, I’m going to use …
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Original Sin and the Sinful Nature, pt 2
In Romans 5 it talks about how sin brought death into the world. It then goes on to say, on vs 17 that “If, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the …
Original Sin and the Sinful nature, pt. 1
I worry about myself sometimes. Really, I do. I notice that there are certain well accepted doctrines within Christianity that really bug me, and my propensity to find alternative answers can put me on the border of heretic, or – at the very least – hetero-orthodox or something. I take no real pleasure in being …