The Pain of Pretended Omniscience

Originally posted on Thinking Pastorally:
There can be little doubt that in the present day most of us are awash with knowledge and parched for wisdom. We have rationalised the processes for understanding until we assume answers, are impatient with the process of learning, and struggle to confess genuine ignorance. We are constantly consuming unfiltered…

Sunday Morning Walk on Water

Sunday Morning Walk on Water I’m walking on the trail with little Snowy when a snatch of conversation comes my way. “According to the Bible,” booms a bass voice. “A miracle,” I hear a woman say. (Oh!) I leave the trail and suddenly I’m walking on water as I step down from curb. I cross…

Broken

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Two Stage Christianity

I love reading J I Packer. He helps clear up the odd theology that I picked up from the eclectic Christian influences of my past. For example, take “total surrender.” Anyone got there yet? And what about those two natures, the good one and the bad one, wrestling inside of us? Finally, there’s that passive…

Through the Bible Through the Year by John Stott

  It’s good to hear that more Christians are discovering the Bible as God’s unified telling of the great story of the world. The grand story written for us, and so much more powerful than a self-help book to find isolated passages and stories to pick and choose from. John Stott’s devotional is a great…

Notes and Quotes on Charles Simeon by Handley Moule

I have found this quaint biography on Charles Simeon to be one of the most compelling accounts of a life transformed and inspired by the love of Christ that I’ve ever read. According to both friend and foe, the wealthy young Charles did not have a winning personality. He was proud, arrogant, impulsive and intense.…

George Mueller on JOY

“I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I…

Meeting Jesus: The Gospel of God

“The gospel cannot be heard and preached enough.” Canon David Short from a sermon on Romans 1:1–7. These are my sermon notes from a wonderful message I heard at St. John’s Anglican Church, an ANIC church in Vancouver, B.C. I had a Holy Spirit inspired “aha” moment as he spoke about “the obedience of faith.” You…

Lead On, Kindly Light by Thomas Howard

Every now and again, I try to get inside the minds and hearts of people who have left the Protestant church to become Catholics. Years ago, I heard that Thomas Howard, a brother of Elisabeth Elliot, left the evangelical church of his youth to become an Anglican and eventually a Roman Catholic. I read his…

John Bunyan and the Selling of His Savior

Long, long ago, as a single woman in her early twenties, I went to a small, rural Bible school that taught a unique mix of Pentecostal and reformed doctrine. One of my most memorable teachers was a guest lecturer who was a missionary to First Nations people in Canada. He was tall and lean, a…