Imputation of Christ’s righteousness, that is.

Very interesting. And exciting to think about. Here.

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This interview snippet and comment demonstrates clearly what ‘Anglican’ means to so many within the Anglican communion in the US and UK. That is, stand the middle ground at all costs.

A classic.

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Craig has posted “Fixing 2 Ways to Live” on his blog. It could turn into a good conversation about this masterful (and pervasive) gospel tool.

Here are some thoughts I wrote about 2WTL in Sept 2006, on this very blog.

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I haven’t mentioned any of the current discussion on hell and preaching hell that’s bouncing around the Christian blog world, but I thought I’d link to Craig’s personal reflections on hell, which are interesting and helpful. Press here.

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Yet another ‘open’ letter from one bishop to another.

This time from Henry Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda, to Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church (formerly Episcopal Church of the USA). AB Henry’s letter is in response to a letter from Bishop Katharine, stating that he better not visit a church in the [...]

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A gush of comment today on red letter Bibles (words of Christ in red) and ‘red letter Christians’.

Carson has commented on the phenomenon of ‘red letter Christians’, who claim that,

they take the words of Jesus especially seriously… and end up being more concerned than are other Christians for the poor, the hungry, and those [...]

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Total Church by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester is the latest thing from abroad in Christian circles to hit our shores. I haven’t read the book yet, but we have some good friends, Row and Na, who spent some time with some of the Crowded House gang over the summer. They came back really excited [...]

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Over Easter weekend, we had our church weekend away, not just for our congregation, but also the entirety of FOCUS church. The theme was “The Third Day” - regarding Jesus resurrection from the dead and our resurrection on the last day. We had talks on resurrection and how it relates to us (the meaninglessness of [...]

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Here’s an oldie-but-a-goody from a highly quotable Sydney evangelical of an era past, D. Broughton Knox: Both Calvinist and Arminian are right in what they affirm, but the Arminian is wrong in what he denies. The Arminian affirms that Christ made all men saveable, and denies that he saves any. The Calvinist affirms that Christ [...]

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