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...
What is Belief?

What is Belief?

“To hold something with the intellect is not to believe it. A person’s true belief is that by which they live.” – George MacDonald “Abram believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness” (Gen 15:6). In the Biblical languages, the word for belief equally...
What is Hermeneutics and Why does it Matter?

What is Hermeneutics and Why does it Matter?

Creation/Evolution Hell Women in leadership Homosexuals in the church Care for the environment These controversial issues have one important thing in common: there are people who believe different things about them who claim the Bible supports their view. They...