It Matters How

See part one of this two-part series on fighting sin here. My alarm went off. I squinted at the time: 6:25am. It was cold and dark and my body was being uncooperative. It screamed at me to roll over and get some more sleep. I was seriously tempted. There was another voice though, albeit a quieter one. It simply said you need to do it. I felt the internal struggle, amazed at how quickly the war had begun once again. Then—though my body reeled at the betrayal—the covers were off and my feet were on the ground. The hardest part...

Hannah Le Cras

Sin’s Strategy (and how to fight it)

Hannah Le Cras

The Heart of Holiness

Murray Capill

Can I Even Change?

Reuben Bredenhof

Who are the “Saints”?

Allan Chapple

Secret Sins Will Undermine (and May Destroy) Your Ministry – Here’s How to Fight Them (Part 1/2)

Peter Adam

This is the first of a two-part post offering advice to ministers fighting secret sins (See part 2 here) I have written this because there are currently disturbing stories of people in gospel and Bible ministry whose long-term secret sins have come to light. I want to encourage those already in ministry to appropriate and godly vigilance. And I want to encourage those who are thinking about full-time ministry in the future—and those who are about to begin their ministry—to take this issue seriously, but not to despair or give up. It is possible to continue in ministry with a...

Secret Sins Will Undermine (and May Destroy) Your Ministry – Here’s How to Fight Them (Part 1/2)

Peter Adam

Different Paths to Sanctification

Bethany Downes

There, then, is the message of this book–that through marriage, “the mystery of the gospel is unveiled.” Marriage is a major vehicle for the gospel’s remaking of your heart from the inside out and your life from the ground up.”[1] I was in my mid-twenties and in my final year of Social Work when I first read these words from Tim and Kathy Keller’s book The Meaning of Marriage. I didn’t want to be single. Rather, I envisaged myself using my future marriage to minister to the most vulnerable children in our society. Married people get sex and sanctification; who...

Different Paths to Sanctification

Bethany Downes

Rejoice in the Lord!

Peter Adam

I have been feasting on Philippians in recent months, meditating on Paul’s command to, ‘rejoice in the Lord’, found in 3:1—and then intensified in 4:4: ‘rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again. Rejoice!’ Here are six reflections. God wants us, to actually engage in the physical activity of rejoicing. We may tend to think that it is the internal attitude which counts: but there is no Biblical reason for doing so. The command to ‘rejoice’ does not only refer to a merely internal mental attitude, sense of obligation, or feeling. I think Paul wants the Philippians, and...

Rejoice in the Lord!

Peter Adam

The Stingy Religious?

Gordon Cheng

According to a highly publicised 2015 paper in Current Biology, children who have been brought up religiously are less generous than their religion-free peers. The good news, if you can call it that, is that only in the last couple of months and some four years after the event, it’s now reported in Psychology Today that the paper has been formally retracted (you can see the retraction here). According to a highly publicised 2015 paper in Current Biology, children who have been brought up religiously are less generous than their religion-free peers … four years after the event, the paper has been formally retracted Better late than...