Visiting a Charismatic Catholic Conference

Visiting a Charismatic Catholic Conference

‘You’ll find the prayer room down the corridor on the right’, said the welcoming assistant cheerfully. ‘The Lord is there’, she added in a more serious tone. ‘Yes of course he is!’ grinned my wife, thinking it was a joke. The Lord is everywhere, of course, so He is...
Worship in Spirit and Truth

Worship in Spirit and Truth

‘God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’ (John 4:24) The question of how we ought to worship has given rise to bitter conflict in the body of Christ. So well-known is the controversy that it has its own name: ‘worship wars’. Moderns...
What is Worship?

What is Worship?

I grew up in a church which was home to two competing attitudes to Christian worship. One of them was expressed when people emerged from a service grumbling that they “didn’t get anything out of” the worship that morning. The other was manifest in a common response to...
Does Theology Bring you Closer to God?

Does Theology Bring you Closer to God?

 “If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones.” – C.S. Lewis “Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.” – George...