RSS FeedISLAM AND THE DEATH OF JESUS
Some years ago I was visiting the National Portrait Gallery in London, which was showing an exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings. There was one unfinished painting entitled The Descent from the Cross, which portrayed Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, John and...
WHAT KIND OF GOD DO YOU BELIEVE IN?
Most people believe in some kind of God. God is that which we give the highest priority in our lives. We can make a god of anything that we worship, i.e. give worth or value to. People worship at the shrines of all kinds of gods. Many today believe in themselves and...
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
The Creeds began to be used in worship as a means of expressing the faith of the Church. The earliest creed seems to have been simply “Jesus is Lord” (Romans 10:9; 1 Cor.12:3; 2 Cor.4:5; Phil.2:11). When believers were baptized they declared that Jesus was their Lord....
WHAT IS JOY?
C.S. Lewis entitled his autobiography up to his conversion to Christ, Surprised by Joy. He describes joy as that “of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply...
GUILT AND ITS REMEDY
One of the most read books in my library is When I Relax I Feel Guilty, by Tim Hansel. Having been taught that work is the highest virtue, and having been given a job to do every time my parents saw me sitting down, I used to find myself feeling guilty when I had...
SHAME
Gershon Kaufman in Shame: The Power of Caring writes, “To feel shame is to feel seen in a painfully diminished sense. The self feels exposed both to itself and to anyone else present. Contained in the experience of shame is the piercing awareness of ourselves as...
ALEXEI NAVALNY – A CHRISTIAN MARTYR
Dr Campbell-Jack in his most recent post on his blog A GRAIN OF SAND writes about the Christian faith and witness of Alexei Navalny. A HERO FOR OUR TIME FEATURED ~ CAMPBELL Alexei Navalny, one of the heroes of our time, died in a prison camp of Vladimir Putin, one of...
ANGER
Sitting in a meeting of the Advisory Board of Micah’s Place, our county domestic abuse shelter agency, several references were made to the need for anger management classes in our schools and the county jail. Violence, it was said, is a learned behavior. Children who...
FEAR
Robert De Niro played a gangster in the movie Analyze This, who started suffering from anxiety attacks. He gets dizzy, short of breath, hyperventilates and thinks he is having a heart attack. It is hard for him to accept the diagnosis that he, a macho mafia-type,...
ANXIETY
How does the Gospel address the central issue of anxiety? What does the Word of God have to say about this aspect of the human condition? Archibald Hart, in Overcoming Anxiety, believes we have many different forms of anxiety. There is worry anxiety, which is...
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