Author Archive
Conflict Develops People
One of the things I’ve realized as I’ve been studying church history is that oftentimes the conflict and persecution the early church went through helped develop it doctrinally, spiritually and practically. I realize all of these are intertwined to a great extent but I’ll break down what I mean through this post. It’s easy to [...]
The Path Paved With Good Intentions
I’ve been at college full time for a couple of weeks now and it’s been a great experience. One of the classes I really enjoy is church history and we’ve covered the history of the church up until the reign of Pope Leo I. As we’re going through our textbook one of the course requirements [...]
Musically Challenged
Is music moral? In other words can music be either moral or immoral? That is the question that a lot of us have asked ourselves. Some of us may believe music is amoral and others believe it to be moral and even within these 2 categories we can have various shades of stances. This is [...]
When Everything is Crashing Around You
I think I’d have a mental breakdown if I was in Job’s position yet he blessed God at the end of chapter one after all he lost and went through. A lot of people cursed God and died for much less than what Job went through. We should examine ourselves and see how we’d go [...]
God’s Will™
I’m throwing my thoughts out here so to speak, but what do you think of when you think about “The will of God™“? Many Christian, both young and old have a continual struggle “discerning God’s will for their lives™“. They may spend a lot of time praying and seeking counsel and reading the Bible and [...]
Heritage Bible Display
Yesterday on my way to work I dropped by the Heritage Bible Display in Parramatta. They have a nice collection of Bibles there and I thought I’d share some info (and photos!) of the ones that particularly caught my interest. They had numerous Bibles on display, most of them English translations and several foreign language [...]
Resources
I was just thinking today that I have more books now than I will ever get a chance to read. On top of this all I have a wealth of online resources to add to this that I’ll never get a chance to go through it all. In saying that though I’d like to give [...]
Materialistic Society
It’s never enough. Not enough money, not enough time off, not fast enough transport, not a fast enough PC, not enough books, not enough games, not enough music, not enough friends, not enough time to yourself, not good enough health and so on. Our thirst is never quenched. Even “Christian” themed items become another idol. Not [...]
Learning Greek and Hebrew
For the many of you who are not using Bible study software I suggest you first read this and then check out the Logos website. Thanks to Logos I have lived a spoiled Christian Bible study life. I’ve never had to have dozens of books lying around me struggling to keep enough bookmarks around me [...]
Reader Response vs Authorial Intent
There were a couple of different posts I could have started this series with but I think this is probably the best bet. Let’s get on with the show! Ways to Interpret Through pretty much any artistic medium you have essentially 2 ways to interpret the message conveyed. The medium could be anything like music, [...]
Hermeneutics
Hey guys, this next couple weeks we’ll be looking at Hermeneutics. What is Hermeneutics you may ask? Well, it’s basically a study of methods used to interpreting the Bible. Essentially what we’re looking to do in this next series of posts is to get an overview of not only what is Hermeneutics but how to [...]
Victorious Believer
This post is the fourth of a 4 part series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 My first three posts in this series as one could tell all focused on the truth of the gospel; from the sinfulness of man to his need of redemption to Jesus Christ who redeems man through His blood. [...]
