Not many people know that this is a quotation from the Bible. ‘A merry heart does good like a medicine’ Pro 17:22. Some Christians are too morose for their own good and for the good of Christianity. Some people think that serious Christians should be morose; rather morose Christians need to learn their Christian behaviour …
Author: Donald
Wanted – a man to stand in the gap
Britain needs not only a policy and a vision, but a man who knows how to stand in the gap and to repair the damage caused by secularism. ‘I sought for a man among them, that should repair the hedge and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy …
The Protestant reversal
The Protestant Reformation was a revival of biblical scholarship which led to the recovery of the Gospel. Nowadays things are not so clear. There are many documented examples of Roman Catholic clerics being ignorant of the Bible at the time of the 16th-century European Reformation, and in such an environment it was relatively easy for …
Your Christian identity
Are you a Jewish Christian or a Christian Jew or both? Are you a Friend of Israel, a Conservative Friend of Israel, a Christian Friend of Israel or whatever? Are you a Messianic Jew, a Hebrew Christian or Jewish Christian? What is your primary identity? The International Development Secretary Priti Patel was formally reprimanded by …
Turn, run or burn?
The popular choices under persecution are ‘turn, run or burn’. The first is secular repentance, the second looks like cowardice, and the last is the wicked solution imposed by control freaks. In former times in the UK it was literal burning, but nowadays persecution burns a hole in your pocket, your wallet or your reputation. …
Homosexual Christians – an oxymoron?
There are real oxymorons – "Unitarian Christians" and "Arian Christians" – and there are what ought to be oxymorons but are only too real – flawed Christians and sinful Christians. Is it any surprise? Biblical students and students of human nature should not be surprised. So why is it a great surprise that there are …
Correcting the miscalling of Demas
It is time to rehabilitate Demas, the companion of the apostle Paul, from the slander than judges him a turncoat or even worse, an apostate. The King James Version translates 2Tim 4:10: 'For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia' and other …
Reluctant biblical conformity
The sexual revolution is unravelling. The battle of the sexes is intensifying. The Sun newspaper’s exclusive that Michael Fallon lost his job because of lewd suggestions to Andrea Leadsom, vigorously denied by him, will have the usual secular comment without any significant Christian comment. This is another stage in the sexual revolution. For several decades …
Scotland needs a Reformer
The main message from the 500th anniversary of the European Reformation is that Scotland needs a Reformer. We have plenty of theologians and preachers, but no reformer. Scotland's Reformer was John Knox but we have fallen upon such backsliding times that we need a new one, but at present Scotland has no reformer. A reformer …
Two liberating anniversaries today
Liberty is the theme for Reformation Day 2017. There are two liberating anniversaries today - 500 and 100 years ago respectively - and the message from each of them is being forgotten. 500 years ago today Martin Luther sparked the European Protestant Reformation and 100 years ago today the Balfour Declaration was finalised by the …
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