| Ref |
Title |
Date |
| PT100 |
Mission at Home and Abroad |
01/02/98 |
| Jesus commands us to go and make disciples
everywhere: this is our mission, as individuals and as Churches.
|
| PT101 |
Once Saved? |
03/02/98 |
| The phrase is 'once saved, always saved,' but
is that always true - or always relevant?
|
| PT102 |
Walking on Water |
12/07/98 |
| Matthew 14. Looking at miracles.
|
| PT103 |
Power |
10/12/98 |
| 1 Thessalonians chapter 1. The gospel
comes to us in words and power.
|
| PT104 |
What is a Family? |
09/02/98 |
| What do we mean by 'family'? And why is
it important? A few notes on the subject.
|
| PT105 |
Faith in Doctrine? |
16/02/99 |
| We are saved through faith in Jesus, not faith
in a set of doctrines about Him. We don't always appreciate
this difference,
|
| PT106 |
The Cross in the Life of the Believer |
16/02/99 |
|
|
| PT107 |
Holistic Evangelism |
06/04/99 |
| An approach to evangelism for ordinary people.
|
| PT108 |
The Basis of Christian Belief |
06/04/99 |
| Why do we, as Christians, believe what we
do? This article introduces and explores the
differences between Catholic, Liberal and Evangelical approaches
to authority.
|
| PT109 |
Concentrate on the Important |
06/04/99 |
| Understanding the Bible can become a nightmare
if we go about it the wrong way. One key principle -
taught in all the textbooks - can remove many of these problems at
a stroke.
|
| PT110 |
What Would Jesus Do? |
08/10/99 |
|
Is this the most useful question we can ever ask?
Written in May 1995, and slightly updated for the Web.
|
| PT111 |
Notes on the 'Chicago Statement' on Biblical Inerrancy |
31/12/98 |
|
The Chicago Statement is a tremendous piece of work, and a most
useful starting point for anyone wanting to consider the subject
of Biblical inerrancy. Here are some thoughts and
comments intended to take the discussion forward.
|
| PT112 |
A letter about original sin |
05/10/93 |
|
A response to a letter in Reform attacking Saint Augustine and the
doctrine of original sin. I'm not too keen on some of
his work, but I don't like to criticise the guy unfairly.
|
| PT113 |
Extract from a letter on the meaning of 'church' |
18/08/94 |
|
An extract from a letter to a friend after a visit in which we
stayed up late talking about the way the word 'church' has changed
in meaning over the years.
|
| PT114 |
Some thoughts on church leadership styles |
07/04/95 |
|
Some reflections on what church leaders sometimes do (or don't
do!) and how it is perceived by the majority of the folk who sit
in the pews. It contains some specific examples which,
I believe, illustrate general principles which need to be
remembered and acted upon. It aims to communicate both
objective facts and also the feelings which can be generated
(quite unintentionally) by the leadership.
|
| PT115 |
Westborough Evening Service |
May 1996 |
|
We had a few meetings at Westborough, and Alan Ritchie and myself
were asked to pull together a few groups of people willing to lead
the evening services. Alan and I met, and I drafted
the following to give out to people. As it turned out,
they never got off the ground, as by the time the proposals were
agreed, it was the Summer and the wrong time to launch something
new, and in the Autumn things changed again.
|
| PT116 |
Who Needs Theology? |
|
|
A few brief notes. They may be expanded one day.
|
| PT117 |
The Problem of Pain |
04/11/99 |
|
Notes for the Snowball students
|
| PT118 |
Why Do Good Christians Disagree? |
18/05/00 |
|
Or, rather, why are we so bad at disagreeing in a godly
way? We seem to have very little idea how to do it,
for all the practice we get!
|
| PT119 |
Other Religions |
06/04/00 |
|
An outline for an article.
|
| PT120 |
Telling the Bad News |
13/01/00 |
|
An unfinished article, based on the tape "Hell's Best Kept
Secret".
|
| PT121 |
What is the fate of the wicked? |
21/04/00 |
|
Is Hell a place where demons stick pitchforks into writhing
bodies? Is it a place where the unsaved suffer
eternally, while the saved look on and enjoy watching their
pain? Both of these have been popular images of
Hell. What do people believe about the fate of the
wicked? What should we believe?
|
| PT122 |
Using Spiritual Gifts |
30/05/00 |
|
Not yet finished.
|
| PT123 |
Thoughts on Communion |
13/02/00 |
|
A meditation on the communion meal, prepared when I first led
communion at Highgrove.
|
| PT124 |
Ordinary Christians |
24/07/00 |
|
Most of us feel pretty ordinary most of the time. But
there is no such thing as an ordinary Christian. (Only a
placeholder file at present.)
|
| PT125 |
The Problem of Origins |
|
|
The content of this page has been integrated into the
Further Details
section of the Interactive Gospel "Belief in God" page.
|
| PT129 |
A Catechism for a New Millennium |
04/05/01 |
|
This is very much a 'work in progress', so I am keen to get
feedback on it. It addresses the questions which regularly
come up in conversations with me. Does this strike a chord
with anyone else?
|
| PT132 |
Notes on the Text of the Bible |
23/01/01 |
|
So just how reliable is this Bible these Christians carry round?
Has the original text been scrambled by all the mistakes
and 'improvements' made each time it was copied by hand over the
centuries?
|
| PT135 |
Your Life for His |
21/04/01 |
|
A Good Friday message. What what Jesus doing on the cross,
and how does it affect us?
|
| PT138 |
God Is Good |
09/05/01 |
|
How can Christians claim that God is good, while it seems to many
people that He is cruel, mean and vindictive?
|
| PT139 |
Uzziah |
27/05/01 |
|
2 Chronicles 26. Learning from the example of Uzziah: his success, his failure
(pride!) and what happened with Isaiah when he died.
|
| PT140 |
Joyful Worship |
08/07/01 |
|
Not Nehemiah 12:27. Not an exposition of the given passage,
but a personal description of worship, its place in the Christian
life and a few important characteristics of true worship.
|
| PT141 |
Ephesians |
10/08/01 |
|
This piece started as I was thinking about how we are called to
function as church in the light of our calling and God's purposes.
The original question was concerning the church as a
theraputic community, but this quickly expanded to: 'The Church -
Hospital and Army'.
There has been a lot of talk recently about 'Spiritual Warfare'
and I would like to see what the Bible has to say about this in
the light of everything else we are supposed to do - to see it in
the context of normal life.
|
| PT143 |
A Harvest for the Poor |
09/09/01 |
|
This was prepared for a Harvest Festival service in which I had
been invited to share about the work of the Crisis Centre.
I wanted to encourage people to gain a broader Biblical
understanding of the issue of poverty, and to see that there can
be a great many valid ways to express God's heart on the matter.
|
| PT144 |
Eating God |
11/09/01 |
|
(Incomplete article)
|
| PT145 |
An Introduction to Housegroups |
25/11/01 |
|
I produced the first version of this document for some
housegroup leader training we were doing at Westborough URC.
It was then
updated 21 September 1990 and circulated to all the leaders in
the church. Since then, I have taken out the
church-specific references and amplified a few points in response
to questions over the years.
|
| PT146 |
A Job Description For Housegroup Leaders |
12/12/01 |
|
This document was originally produced for and circulated to the
Housegroup leaders in September 1990. It was made available to
anyone interested in Housegroups at Westborough.
|
| PT147 |
Theology Achieves Nothing? |
20/12/01 |
|
A brief response to the reported claim by Richard Dawkins that
theology achieves nothing.
I make this response because he articulates a view, or maybe an
attitude, that I have heard elsewhere, but seldom expressed in as
clear or as straightforward a manner.
|
| PT148 |
Jeremiah 1: the Call of a Prophet |
03/02/02 |
|
Not really a sermon on Jeremiah chapter 1, but a sermon inspired
by it. God called Jeremiah to be a prophet, and He calls
each one of us to exercise a prophetic ministry, to some
degree.
|