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Tim Keller talks from Oxford University Mission Week
The Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) invites students across Oxford to take a fresh look at Jesus. Lunch time and evening events led by Mike Cain and Tim Keller. All happening this week....
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What’s the best answer a Christian can give to an atheist?
What might just persuade our friends to embrace the gospel of Christ? I guess that depends on what we think is stopping them. Our apologetic (defense) of Christianity largely revovles around answering...
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It’s not really about gay marriage
Peter Mullen writing in the Telegraph argues that behind the debate about same-sex marriage is a much bigger clash of ideas. (HT: David Robertson)
View ArticleGod loves you too much than to give you what you want
I’ve just returned from a walk listening to a Tim Keller sermon on the jealousy of God from 2011 in which he offers this extensive quote from CS Lewis’s Problem of Pain, chapter3: You asked for a...
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A piece I’ve written for Evangelicals Now ‘No one kills in the name of atheism?’
Originally a post on this blog Evangelicals Now have edited and published it for a wider audience This section of a documentary entitled The trouble with atheism presented by Rod Liddle also...
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CS Lewis’s 7 greatest ideas
A very helpful essay by Dr. Art Lindsley of seven insights that CS Lewis shared with the world They are Chronological Snobbery Desire Imagination Objective Values vs. Relativism Myth Immortality...
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What if Jesus had never been born…how the lives of even the irreligious have...
Something from Tim Keller’s new book Center Church to get you thinking: In his history classes, C. John Sommerville used to demonstrate to students how thoroughly Christianized they were, even those...
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Did Jesus have a wife? A Cambridge scholar sheds light on new claims
Reading some of the media output of the last 24 hours and you’d be forgiven for thinking a new ‘gospel’ had been discovered shedding light on the life of Jesus and challenging our traditional...
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What’s the difference between the New Testament gospels and all the others?
Simon Gathercole is a New Testament scholar at Cambridge University who is also a leading expert on other so-called gospels. He has written books on the gospel of Judas and the gospel of Thomas. In...
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No need to be embarrassed by the Trinity
A small group of Muslim men turned up at church from the local mosque to ask a few questions on Sunday evening. Unsurprisingly conversation soon turned to the Trinity. As it turned out we had just...
View ArticleHow Thatcher’s Christian faith shaped her leadership
Two quite superb articles in American Spectator. The first is on Margaret Thatcher’s Christian faith and its impact on her leadership. The second is entitled ‘what the new atheists ignore‘ and is a...
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Atheism has failed says Chief Rabbi
Fascinating article in this week’s Spectator from Jonathan Sacks,the chief Rabbi on the failure of atheism to find an answer to the question ‘why be good?’ I have not yet found a secular ethic capable...
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What Christians must learn from the ‘new atheists’ if only we will listen
Two articles in the past week, both on the Telegraph website, highlight the growing embarrassment that so many atheists find with the posturing of Richard Dawkins. Brendon O’Neill confesses that...
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Three atheists who think the world needs Christianity
Former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Dominic Lawson, recently reviewed a book by Harvard Professor, Niall Ferguson entitled Civilisation: The West and the Rest. In his review Lawson includes a...
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How to respond to 10 top atheist claims
A helpful guide to offering quick responses to the claims atheists make (HT: Paul Rees)
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Maybe you should just bring people to church after all!
Trevin Wax has written a thoughtful post on the witness of the church as community to the gospel and its power to help overcome barriers to belief. It’s not a easy read and the key conclusion I’ve...
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How should Christians think about Star Wars?
Having just taken my 10 year old to see the new Star Wars film today here is a helpful article on thinking clearly and biblically about the Star Wars phenomena.
View ArticleGod, if you’re there, why don’t you make it more obvious?
Over Christmas 2015 at City Church Birmingham we invited those who visited our Carol services to take part in a poll to identify the three most important questions that we would like to ask God. On...
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God, why did you create a world with so much misery?
Over Christmas 2015 at City Church Birmingham we invited those who visited our Carol services to take part in a poll to identify the three most important questions that we would like to ask...
View Articleif you’re a loving God, why do you send people to hell?
Over Christmas 2015 at City Church Birmingham we invited those who visited our Carol services to take part in a poll to identify the three most important questions that we would like to ask God. On...
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