I was preaching last Sunday about a point of doctrine in 1 John. It is great to have the privilege to publicly declare incredible, glorious truths. And even though I was the one preaching it, this great truth has been in my mind in the days since then. I once met someone who said, “Doctrine [...]
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Jesus, a man that was born, died, rose, ascended, pleads before the Father, will return again to judge the earth
Posted: 29th September 2011 by graham in Church, preach_it!0
Dawkins too cowardly to debate with this Christian according to atheist Philosopher
Posted: 20th September 2011 by graham in Culture, preach_it!Having published my post yesterday ‘Does Dawkins make bigotry sound respectable?’ I have just heard of a Nationwide Debating Challenge to Atheists. William Lane Craig is a Christian Apologist and, one by one, debaters have run scared of him and have backed out of their agreement to debate him. Richard Dawkins has also refused to [...]
Does Dawkins make bigotry sound respectable?
Posted: 19th September 2011 by graham in Culture, news_comment, preach_it!Richard Dawkins may be a fool in the biblical sense but he is not unintelligent so I wonder what his tactic is with his current campaign to get any other but his own views excluded from science teaching in schools. It sounds to me like he is playing a long game and is aiming at [...]
Do I envy Steve Jobs? Though I have come to see that envy is an fulfilling track to be on, I have to admit that to envy others for what they are, or what they have, is part of being human. It is however a tendency best avoided and something which is even featured in [...]
Rupert Murdoch: lessons in apology
Posted: 18th July 2011 by graham in Culture, news_comment, preach_it!Does he have no competent advisors or does he simply refuse to listen to them? Is Murdock really powerful, or is he the powerless slave of his own arrogance? It seems to me that Murdoch has had difficulty apologising. Perhaps he is uncertain what an authentic apology is. On the subject of apologies, this is [...]
Sermon notes 1John2:15-17 The world and its desires pass away
Posted: 4th July 2011 by graham in preach_it!For previous sermon notes in this series go to YorkElim.com. 1 John 2:15-17 Intro In this section we see that John speaks about having a right perspective on this life. He stresses that we should not love the world or anything in the world (15). and that ‘The world and its desires pass away’ (v17). [...]
Where are the humanists and the Fabians and the Socialists?
Posted: 2nd July 2011 by graham in Culture, preach_it!, reviewsSo much for the claims of the evangelical atheists, ‘Brights’, humanists and other God-dodgers. That fact demonstrated over the centuries, and still demonstrated today, is that it is Christians who are seen at the rock-face of social action. Another quote from Utopian Dreams By Tobias Jones I enjoyed: Tobias describes his experience of working on [...]