By ANDREW ROYCROFT - This is the new way to apologise – be outrageous, speak malignantly and abusively, push the edges of gratuitousness, and then as the verbal bomb detonates deny that you really meant to plant it in the first place.
Tag: Jesus
Redeeming an Unmentionable Word?
By GAVIN MATTHEWS - One of the key words Jesus used is now considered taboo in our culture, and an embarassment in our churches. Can we recover its life-giving meaning?
Where is Jesus now? And what is he doing?
Published in Christian Today – 02 April 2016 It’s the week after Easter. We repeat the joyous affirmation of faith. “Christ is risen. He is risen indeed.” In St Pete’s as we have some Greeks in our fellowship we always use the Greek version – “Christos Anesti...Alithos Anesti.” But then comes the question: OK, He is Risen. …
What is the message of Jesus? Does it change?
Published in Christian Today – 11 March 2016 Everyone loves Jesus; it’s just the Church they can’t stand. Everyone loves the message of Jesus, if only the Church practised it. In this series so far I hope you can see how we have been gradually climbing the mountain towards greater enlightenment. We have examined the evidence …
Jesus: The Ultimate Reason to Believe
Published in Christian Today – 05 March 2016 The young man at the University of Stirling made an astonishing statement, “OK, you have destroyed my atheism, but what do YOU believe? And why?” It is one of the few times that I have been floored by a question. What would I tell him? What would you …
Scotsman article – Jesus is Alive with joy, love, compassion
This article appeared in The Scotsman newspaper 31 July 2014. http://www.scotsman.com/news/jesus-is-alive-with-joy-love-and-compassion-1-3494240 Faith, not celebrity endorsements, matter, says David Robertson The Church in the United Kingdom could certainly do with all the help it can get. So it was very sweet of Sir Elton John to give us his considered theological opinion a few weeks ago. …