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I Corinthians 12:1-11 “Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed…” (I Corinthians 12:1) The church at Corinth was richly endowed with spiritual gifts (I Corinthians 1:7) - but were woefully ignorant of their true purpose. They were like...

Angelina, if I have misunderstood you, I apologise unreservedly. For the record, I am really not bothered over whether people believe in non-evolutionary creation or theistic evolution. I was worried by an apparent implication that dishonesty is an inevitable part of the debate and that...

Angelina, I didn't quote the whole of your comment because I was only commenting on the first part of it. The second half is really opening up a different issue altogether.

I'm even more appalled by statements like this. Even if some evolutionists are less than honest, what excuse does that give Christians to follow suit? The stakes are so high in this debate... we cannot afford to score any 'own goals'.

I'm sorry, but those pictures don't look like human handprints to me.

That's sad. It's wrong. There's nobody (not even God) counting the number of times you walk through the door of a church to see if you build up 'enough' attendance. So the question "Do online churches count" is a bit meaningless. Online sermons can be a really good resource if the preaching at...

Here are some thoughts for you to ponder: You don't give any indication of how old you are, DD. Are you still dependent on your parents for everything? Having unsympathetic parents never stopped a true musician, and not learning the piano doesn't close the doors to a musical career. My...

Paul means 'little', not 'humble'. And how do you know that Paul changed his name himself? It could have been a nickname that others called him and eventually stuck. And does Jacob's prophecy mean that all Benjamites were to be 'wolves in sheep's clothing'? And Paul held to the teachings of...

Exactly. The 'works' that James talks about are not the 'works of the law' that Paul condemns, but those that fulfil Jesus' command to love God and our neighbours (Mark 12:29-31). How can we love our neighbours without anyone noticing? And didn't Jesus tell us to "let your light shine before...

I have a big problem with this. Being 'under grace' doesn't make good works redundant or irrelevant. As Jesus said, 'By their fruit you will recognise them.' (Matthew 7:20) We are saved by faith (as Jews also are - see Acts 15:11) - but the kind of faith that we are saved by is the kind of...

I have to agree with you there! ;)

What sort of image does the word ‘Sabbath’ evoke? Maybe one of the early scenes in the film Chariots of Fire, where we see the devout Christian athlete Eric Liddell telling off some young boys for playing football on a Sunday. (As the film also showed, he himself refused to run a Sunday heat in...

I am currently reading a new book, The Great Christ Comet: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Christ-Comet-Revealing-Bethlehem/dp/1433542137/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The author argues from astronomical data that Christ must have been born in October, 6BC. Fascinating!

She would have called him 'Yeshua'. 'Jesus' comes from the Greek form of his name - Iesous - which is how it is always written in the original Greek New Testament. The Greeks evidently found it easier to pronounce Hebrew names if they were altered slightly. In particular, names ending in a...

Why do we celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th? Actually, not all Christians do; the Eastern Orthodox churches, following a different calendar, will have their Christmas on January 7th. But it’s a good question. After all, we aren’t even certain of the exact year of Jesus’ birth, let...

None of them?

There's a failure in logic here. Paul doesn't mention a lot of things, but we believe them if they are elsewhere in Scripture. Two witnesses to the virgin birth (Matthew and Luke) are enough. How do you equate 'full of grace' to 'sinless'? What is the logical connection between the two? To our...

Luke 9:57,58 “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” (verse 58) Jesus lacked even the most basic of human possessions – somewhere to call home (John 1:10,11). He, the Creator of all things, had made Himself dependent upon the generosity of human...

At the beginning of his reign, Nero appeared to be a very reasonable character - it was only much later that he turned into a monster. He ruled from AD 54 to 68, so his 14th year would have been long after Paul's death in AD64. Paul's appeal must be dated around AD59. In any case, Paul was...

The book of Job is devoted to the philosophical problem of suffering: if God is good and just, why do bad things happen to good people? The brief storyline sets the scene. Job is a very good man – as good as a man can possibly be – and yet he suffers as much as any man can possibly suffer (short...