My previous blogpost has some of Jesus' teaching on why people do not listen to Him nor believe in Him. Jesus has gone to heaven and left His people in this world to carry on His teaching. How are they progressing? It is relevant to follow up the previous blogpost with Jesus' own opinion of …
Category: Behaviour
Feeding upon the Word of God
How do we feed upon the Word of God? A mother feeds the body of her child with food. A teacher feeds the mind with information. Jesus feeds the soul with spiritual truth using the Bible. The devil poisons the mind with false doctrine. He tempts the soul with wicked suggestions. He even tempted Jesus Mat 4:1-11. …
Christian care is not the same as secular care
Just as Christian morality is not the same as secular morality, neither is secular care the same as Christian care. Secular care is very choosey; it picks and chooses. On a recent walk I met two runners who identified themselves as atheists. Having established that they were open to discussion, it was immediately apparent that …
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Do you ignore the Prince of Peace?
Many people acknowledge that the world would be a better place if people were like Jesus Christ. So why do so many not listen to Him? Why do politicians in particular ignore His message? They will quote Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Leo Tolstoy, but the name of Jesus Christ …
Reforming the Reformed Church
The Reformed Church is the Christian church that emerged in Europe during the 16th-century European Reformation, reforming the church from the Roman Catholic corruptions that had emerged under the Roman Catholic pope in Rome. These reforms are generally described as "Reformed in Doctrine, Worship and Practice". 500 years after these events, there has been a …
When conscience fails
Conscience is a person's ability to form moral judgments, whether something is right or wrong. Conscience is a judge, not about everything but whether something is right or wrong. This is not the same as judging if something is true or false. We may all agree about the facts but disagree about the interpretation of …
What is your morality?
People make the mistake of thinking that there is only one morality. There are multiple moralities and people choose the one that they want. Christian morality is different from secular morality, which is different from Jewish and muslim morality, etc. People choose the morality they want to follow, and they are responsible for their morality …
Where are the anti-war demonstrators?
Just when one might expect anti-war demonstrators, they are nowhere to be seen. Extinction Rebellion cries out against climatic Armageddon, but Russia threatens nuclear Armageddon in the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war, and who can say where the 2023 Gaza-Israeli war will lead? Rather, major cities in the UK and overseas have witnessed Palestinian celebrations at the …
What is the nature of faith?
Faith is a personal judgment. You cannot believe something that you do not think is true. You have judged it to be true, so you believe it. If you judge it to be false you are not able to believe it. Therefore you are personally responsible for your own beliefs because they are your personal …
Reserving judgment
Public discussion is polarising society into the familiar "us and them" mantra. "Are you one of us?" Current discussions too often resolve into binary choices, and many people expect you to subscribe to one or other – left or right, for or against Donald Trump, for or against the Russo-Ukrainian war or the coronavirus vaccine, …
Donald's Thoughts 