Genesis 1 and Science
It's difficult to think of any piece of literature as supportive of the modern scientific enterprise as Genesis 1. All the necessary foundations are in place: 1. Laws Up Above The ancient Chinese had...
View ArticleHow to win the world
Yesterday I led a seminar on equipping Christians for evangelism. I opened up with a quiz to figure out where people were coming from. This is the quiz: Here are four pairs of statements. Both...
View ArticleThe Nature of God – Triune from the Beginning
I've been listening to a lot of Muslim - Christian debates. Here are three that have interested me recently - each of them with Dr Shabir Ally. Firstly there's James White vs Shabir Ally on whether the...
View ArticleHow Can God Forgive Paedophiles?
The OICCU asked me to speak last week on this title: Perverse Justice - How Can God Forgive Paedophiles? Really it's about how God's justice relates to His forgiveness. (Don't worry, the sound rights...
View ArticleIs the Allah of Islam the Father of Jesus?
The question is rarely phrased this way (largely because anyone who's read the Quran - Muslims especially - will tell you, Of course not. Allah emphatically denies it!). But people are again discussing...
View ArticleWho is Jesus in Islam and Christianity?
Here's my dialogue with Adnan Rashid from 2 December 2015. Unfortunately the video seems to have been lost but not the audio. AUDIO My opening talk is from 27:08-48:30 and then Adnan and I took...
View ArticleThe Guy With The Mic Does Not Speak For The Room
Last month I was helping out with a number of student missions. One mainstay of the university mission is a "lunch bar." The Christian Union provides free food, there's a talk (often with a provocative...
View ArticleChampions!
We experience it all the time. Leicester City lifts the trophy and millions rejoice. England beats Australia in the rugby and strangers introduce themselves to me with the words "Three Nil!" (To which...
View ArticleSix Disturbing Assumptions Uncovered in A World Without Downs
If you haven't seen it already, run, don't walk, to see Sally Phillips' documentary: A World Without Down's Syndrome. In it Phillips discusses a new, non-invasive, test offered by the NHS to diagnose...
View ArticleInclusive Community? Pick one.
We want community and we want inclusion. But how do we have both? Because a community is not a random collective. A community is a unity. And it's unified around something or towards something....
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