The Heart of Holiness
Murray Capill prepares the way for TGCA’s 2022 National Conference on Holiness, with this timely reflection on our need for renewed affections.
Rejoice in the Lord!
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...
The Stingy Religious?
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...
What Sins of Ministry are You Killing Today?
This is the second part of Peter Adam’s ‘Killing Sin’ series. See the first post here. Another question I sometimes ask people in ministry, the right context, is: ‘What sins of ministry are you killing today?’ When I ask it, I always allow time for a stunned silence, and then say, ‘I don’t want to know what they are, I just want to know that you are doing it.’ That allows some colour to return to the cheeks of the person I am talking with, and the conversation continues. I ask that question, because we are so often thinking about what...
What Sins are You Killing Today?
This is the first part of a two-part series. See the second post here. I admit it is an intrusive question, and one that tends to stop a conversation! (The context is someone I am mentoring or advising or counselling, not everyday conversations! And it takes place some months after the serious conversations begin.) If I ask it of someone I am talking with, I always allow time for a stunned silence. Then say, ‘I don’t want to know what they are, I just want to know that you are doing it.’ That allows some colour to return to the...
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