I’m the Bad Guy … duh?

How do you talk about sin? If you want to share the gospel, you need to talk about sin. If you don’t know that you’re a sinner, you won’t know that you need a saviour. You won’t get why you deserve judgment. And you won’t care about repentance. So how do you talk about sin? How do you get someone to realise that they are ‘the bad guy’? Last week, Billie Eilish topped this year’s Triple J’s Hottest 100 with her track “Bad Guy.”[1] The song picks up on the common theme (albeit sarcastically) that being ‘bad’ is cool. Bad...

Tom Habib

The Temptations of Jesus

John McClean

The Power: Book Review

Andrew Moody

Review: The Bible Project – Brilliant but Flawed

Richard Sweatman

The Prodigal Arminian?

Matthew Payne

Hard Lessons About Sanctification from John Newton

Brianna McClean

Sanctification and Sin John Newton was famously familiar with grace. As a slave-trader turned clergyman, he was a living depiction of his much-beloved hymn, Amazing Grace. However, Newton’s experience of grace did not climax at conversion. In a less remembered hymn, I Asked the Lord that I Might Grow, Newton captures the tension which lies at the heart of every Christian life: sanctification and sin. Accepting Jesus as Lord and Saviour demands a whole-hearted and life changing pursuit of righteousness. The Bible commands us to flee from sin and God promises to mould us into the image of Christ. How...

Hard Lessons About Sanctification from John Newton

Brianna McClean

The Godly Heresy of Sinless Perfectionism

Matthew Payne

How can a heresy be ‘godly’? In short, it can’t. Godliness is about conformity to sound doctrine (Titus 2:1). However, most cases of (reasonably convincing) false teaching will consist of biblical truths that have been skewed in some way. The ingredients are good, but the recipe is incomplete or else has had unwelcome things added, and the result is a theological and practical mess. Sinless Perfectionism is a doctrine like that. In short, it holds that it is possible for Christians to completely defeat sin in the present life and to live holy lives like Jesus did. At a glance,...

The Godly Heresy of Sinless Perfectionism

Matthew Payne

Seven Reasons Why You Should Believe in Total Depravity

Andrew Moody

Not too long ago, Christian (2019 update: Taoist) hipster musician Michael Gungor caused a minor ripple in Christian social-media by firing off a flurry of (what he later called) “cranky tweets” about the Reformed doctrine of Total Depravity. The doctrine of total depravity is a lie. And a harmful one … it defames creation … “You are total trash. You were born total trash. Believe the right things so I can forgive you.” Here are 7 reasons why the doctrine of Total Depravity (TD) is not a lie but rather a liberating truth. 1. It Affirms Human Value. Many people...