Category: Adult Non-Fiction

  • Who believed the earth was flat?

    Who believed the earth was flat?

    According to popular thinking, the Middle Ages was a period of ignorance, often represented by the supposition that people thought the earth was flat. (Ever hear the contemporary phrase “flat earth thinking”?) It turns out that is a myth. Check out this quote from a mediaeval theologian – Thomas Aquinas. “the astronomer and the physicist…

  • Love the sinner; hate the sin – where is this from?

    Love the sinner; hate the sin – where is this from?

    Written some time in the past 20 years. It’s often said that the phrase, “Love the sinner; hate the sin” is from Gandhi. However, a good 1600 years before Gandhi, Augustine said it in his “The City of God“, book 14, chapter 6 (read this whole quote – it unpacks it well). …Wherefore the man…

  • The Experience Meeting – Dialogue 4 (p31-38).

    The Experience Meeting – Dialogue 4 (p31-38).

    This post was published to Kiwi and an Emu. at 10:28:45 AM 22/02/2008 Eusebius begins this dialogue asking how the meetings should be carried out. Theophilus begins stating that “prayers and pleadings” should be made to God asking him to show what he would have done “…whether…singing praises, or continuing in prayer, catechizing some, comforting…

  • The Experience Meeting – Dialogue 3 (p22-30).

    The Experience Meeting – Dialogue 3 (p22-30).

    This post was published to Kiwi and an Emu. at 7:11:20 PM 16/01/2008 Theophilus then outlines his “rules”. “[T]here should be stewards in every fellowship” the number according to the number of people or geographical location i.e. if there are fewer people spread out over many districts, one should come from each district. Eusebius suggests…

  • The Experience Meeting: Dialogue 2 (pp13-21)

    The Experience Meeting: Dialogue 2 (pp13-21)

    This post was republished to Kiwi and an Emu. at 3:46:54 PM 5/01/2008 Theophilus begins his defense of experience meetings with the assertion that, even if there were not a single example in the Old or New Testaments, the fact that the meetings bring such benefit to Christians is proof enough that they are God’s…

  • The Experience Meeting: Dialogue 1 (pp7-12)

    The Experience Meeting: Dialogue 1 (pp7-12)

    This post was published to Kiwi and an Emu. at 5:19:57 AM 30/12/2007 Eusebius visits Theophilus with the express intention to get advice about Experience Meetings.  This first dialogue gives an imaginary history of the awakening in Eusebius’ area, though one can imagine that the history is a compilation of similar histories throughout Wales. Eusebius…

  • The Experience Meeting: Introduction (pages 5-6).

    The Experience Meeting: Introduction (pages 5-6).

    This post was published to Kiwi and an Emu. at 7:37:55 PM 29/12/2007 Dr. David Martin Lloyd-Jones begins by placing the book in the context in which it was written, “The Methodist or Evangelical Awakening of the 18th Century”.  Apparently the Awakening began in Wales about two years before England, but both had great similarities,…

  • Testimonies about homosexuality and change.

    Testimonies about homosexuality and change.

    Written circa 2015-2016. A lot has happened since then. There is not even an argument in the public square about homosexuality and the possibility of change. Some ministries that specialised in the area of helping people struggling with sexual sin have been forced to close (hence the unavailability of some links below). Christians have adapted…

  • 7 Truths for Evangelism.

    7 Truths for Evangelism.

    Roger Carswell draws 7 truths from Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 in the last chapter of his book, “And Some Evangelists” about sowing the gospel in order to reap. They’re good because they are so commonsense.

  • The Father’s Spirit of Sonship.

    The Father’s Spirit of Sonship.

    The Father’s Spirit of Sonship: Reconceiving the Trinity.   by Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M.Cap. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1995. When I first heard of Weinandy’s book, I was both excited and frustrated. Excited, because it spoke of the Spirit being integrally involved in the begetting of the Son; frustrated, because the very person I first heard…