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Losing your faith

Losing your faith

Recently there has been a couple of high profile Christians who have announced that they are losing their faith. One I am particularly saddened about is Marty Sampson, who I lived next door to for a while some twenty years ago..

  • Survey on sin

    Some years ago British researches claim that not only are Australians the worst of all sinners, according to their definitions, the greatest sin of Australians is envy. Has anything changed?

  • Basic apologetics is a necessity

    For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term apologetics, it is simply defined as:

  • Perfecting Work and Rest

    Rest is what we often long for, but I think I hear less about rest than work. One of the great hopes of the Christian is that we will be able to rest because we will live with God forever in the new creation.

  • Theology – Replacement No 3

    I oppose the philosophical argument that the Jewish people ceased as God's Covenant people at the Cross, which is at the heart of the debate. This is the third in a series of three lectures.

  • Nike: the god of Victory

    Few would have guessed that a hard working business graduate and his track coach would start a company with $1000 back in 1972 that would become one of the largest and most recognized brands in the world today. Today, Phil Knight’s creation, Nike, is now worth over $36 billion - a stark contrast to a running shoe company selling its shoes from the back of Knight’s car at track races.

  • Do we know the Holy Spirit?

    What are your thoughts about the Holy Spirit? How important is he to you? Do you know him personally? The reason I ask is because I believe our relationship with him is the most important relationship we will have on the earth. Our relationship with him changes the way we walk with God.

  • The greatest invitation

    Love is invitation.

  • Trial and triumph

    Often in the work place you have to deal with power politics and passive-aggressive colleagues or customers who undermine, backstab, gossip and bully. People might besmirch you to the boss; demean you accusingly by the tone of their voice; reprimand you over trivial and petty things, just so they can feel powerful and in control, and or advance themselves in the workplace—not to mention other emotionally abusive behaviours.

  • Theology – Replacement No 2

    My first article yesterday, in this series, I showed how there was conflict in Biblical texts about whether Christ at the Cross superseded the Old Covenant between God and the Jewish people. This is referred to as Replacement Theology, and it is commonly taught at seminaries all over the world.

  • After the High. Watch Out for the Low

    How do you come down from an intense period? It has been asked of me because I have just finished a minor thesis. I took me a whole year to write this essay of 1600 words on the contradiction between hope and technology. If this essay gets a high enough grade I will be given permission to continue my research. I have been under pressure for a while.  As the final week loomed the pressure was showing.

  • Grace for Your Race

    In Psalms, we are instructed to magnify the Lord at all times. Magnify means to refocus and make something seem great/important. What we magnify as believers matters. Are we seeing things from a heavenly perspective? In a world that is constantly evolving, we have to fight to maintain God’s kingdom reality and mindset.