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Character

Guest post by David Wayne

August 5, 2011

Today’s guest post comes from David Wayne, the Jollyblogger.  Adrian and David were so close and interacted so much in the early days of Christian blogging that at one point there was an internet rumour that they were the same person! Adrian’s early debates with David Wayne over the charismatic issue were some of his [...]

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Popular posts: 10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan.

August 3, 2011

During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, “10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan.” As the world was reeling from the astonishing news from Japan, this post proved quite popular as [...]

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10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan

March 14, 2011

As Japan braces itself for a possible further serious earthquake, and deals with the consequences of such massive devastation caused by the last one, not to mention the risk of a major nuclear incident, how should Christians respond? Please understand that none of this is intended to claim that we have all the answers to [...]

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SERMON – Building for the Glory of God: Nehemiah 3

October 16, 2008

Last Sunday I preached on Nehemiah 3. You can download the sermon, listen to it right here, download the video via the vodcast or by rightclicking on this download link. or read the edited trancript below. You can Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep [...]

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Lloyd-Jones On Lust

October 13, 2008

Once again the Doctor diagnoses the human condition with timeless pinpoint accuracy in this quote: We are creatures of lust and desire and passion. Let me give you the best description ever given of humanity without Christ, humanity as it is by nature. In his epistle to Titus, Paul writes: Put them in mind to [...]

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Death By Love – Pastoral Application of the Atonement by Driscoll and Breshears

October 11, 2008

I want to introduce you to a very unusual book by Mark Driscoll and his writing buddy and professor, Gerry Breshears. I would go so far as to say that this is a unique book in that I have never seen anything quite like it. If their first book together, Vintage Jesus, was a light [...]

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Lloyd-Jones on Anger and Self-Control

October 6, 2008

The Doctor was given his nickname, I believe, not so much because of his medical degree, but rather because of the way in which he used his diagnostic skill to get to the root of the human predicament. This quote is a good example of that: To fail to control ourselves means a loss of [...]

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John Piper’s Biblical Antidote to Anger

October 3, 2008

Anger is very much associated with our sense of rights. We feel that we have been violated and “deserve” better treatment. The truth is, none of us deserve anything but hell. We build up for ourselves a mental picture of our ideal life, of what we want, so that it becomes an idol. When we [...]

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SERMON – Living For The Future: Philippians 1

June 3, 2008

These are notes from the sermon I preached at Jubilee last Sunday. They are shorter than usual, but I thought I’d share the outline with you anyway. You can listen to the sermon by downloading it or you can listen to it here: I. HOW TO LIVE FOR THE FUTURE—Philippians 1:1-11 Know Who You Are [...]

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My First Week Without Comments

November 29, 2007

It is now almost a week since I made the decision to stop comments here on the blog. In the next few days I will also be deleting all the old ones. I have to say that, so far, I have not missed them. It’s not so much that I don’t want interaction with my [...]

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Thanksgiving and Some Changes Around Here

November 22, 2007

I am thankful today. It may not be my holiday, we may not have anything even remotely like it here in the UK, but as I said last year, I am very glad of the reminder this American holiday represents. I know that at times I still have a sinful tendency to focus on things [...]

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Mark Driscoll Apologizes For Not Being Humble

November 10, 2007

UPDATEThis sermon clip is making a stir in the blogosphere for all the right reasons—a great example of the typical reaction comes from Josh Harris. The influence of C. J. Mahaney on Mark Driscoll is becoming ever more plain. In this clip Mark ‘steals’ an outline of practical advice on how to be humble from [...]

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