Archive for the ‘Church’ Category

The Government are consulting on allowing religious bodies to hold homosexual civil partnerships. I am very uncomfortable about this. The Government insists that their proposals would not compel ministers to allow civil partnerships in their churches. I find that difficult to believe. It was in 2005 that homosexual adoption was made legal, yet within three [...]

Too Many Older People in Church

Posted: 11th April 2011 by graham in Church, church culture

There are too many older people in the church in Britain, and I am one of them. Has that made you either sit up or choke on your tea? What I really mean is that there can never be too many of any age group in the church, we want to win all to Jesus. [...]

A New Atheist

Posted: 14th December 2010 by graham in Church, Culture, preach_it!

I would like to promote a new atheism. I agree with many atheist, as I too reject the god that they reject. I too reject the god that some famous fools reject. I had a conversation with a friend who claims to be an atheist. At first he wanted to dismiss belief in God. As [...]

Police lose case against preacher

Posted: 13th December 2010 by graham in Church, Culture, news_comment, preach_it!

A significant ruling in favour of Christian freedom of speech has been made in the case of a street preacher arrested for quoting the Bible on homosexuality. The police now have to pay £4,000 compensation to Anthony Rollins, who was handcuffed in Birmingham after using biblical passages to oppose homosexual sex. Mr Rollins was held [...]

THREAT TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Posted: 29th November 2010 by graham in Church, Global

Most of us here in the UK and Ireland have the freedom to believe. We are free to read the Bible whenever we like or to go to church and worship with other Christians whenever we want to. And we can do all of this without thinking the police might break down our door, seize [...]

Ordinary Obedience

Posted: 18th November 2010 by graham in Church, preach_it!

I watched a video recently of a preacher boldly doing his stuff. His confidence seemed in equal proportion to his lack of biblical knowledge. A particular thing that irritated my was when he said “God never asks you to do what you are naturally able to do. God always asks you to do what is [...]

A Sure and Certain Hope

Posted: 13th October 2010 by graham in Church, preach_it!

I have been getting ready for my sermon on Sunday and have been thinking about Christian hope. As a new believer I used to wonder why a more certain work was not used instead of hope. I now see that every use of the word when referring to biblical hope is not a declaration of [...]