There’s something powerful about music. It goes beyond words and concepts to touch the very depths of us. In spite of its impersonal nature, music has a unique ability to make us feel happy or sad, upbeat or depressed. 

One thing I dislike is how Michelangelo depicts God as leaving man to fend for himself on earth. Once Adam awakens from his drowsy snooze, the Father is hidden behind a reddish veil whereby only His hand can be seen.

One of the main problems I have with the Prosperity Gospel is that it turns the church of the living God into an American success story.

Did He put the eyes of faith into a few and drops of vinegar into the eyes of others? Come on! Why do some saints have faces as long as horses?

The cool thing about Galatians is that it’s so easy to understand. Paul has one simple message he conveys from beginning to end. It is the key New Testament truth that justification is by faith alone.

If God wants someone to be overwhelmed with the sense of His presence, then He can lay the man (woman) on the ground; not the preacher! Let God be God! Let the Spirit do the work! Anything else is a deceitful work of man that brings the integrity of the Gospel into question.

The real know-it-alls are twenty-first century materialists because we all know that miracles just can’t happen, or do we?

Tertullian was so entirely caught up in the dynamism of God’s Spirit that some have dubbed him as the church’s first authentically ‘Pentecostal’ theologian (although it’s a blatant anachronism, a bit like calling Augustine a ‘Calvinist’). Tertullian loved the Holy Spirit.

Here are four reasons that preaching is losing much of its prestige amongst us.

I used to think it was a smashing piece of pithy advice that managed to express so much in so few words. The original proponent of this practical theology is thought to be Francis of Assisi who quipped (1182-1226), “Preach the Gospel at all times and if necessary, use words”. Who couldn’t agree with such a wonderful statement?

Here’s a short list of the people the Bible mentions who thanked God for Jesus’ birth: the wise men from the East, Mary, the shepherds, the angels, Elizabeth, Zechariah and old brother Simeon. Only God knows how many folk praised Him for Jesus’ birth and nowhere does the Bible say that God rebuked them for doing so.