by Barney | Jul 6, 2021 | Bible, Theology
“But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites...
by Barney | Dec 4, 2020 | Theology
The four weeks leading up to Christmas are called Advent, and are part of the traditional Christian calendar known as the ‘liturgical calendar’. The liturgical calendar is full of dates when different parts of the Christian story are remembered: Easter and Holy Week,...
by Barney | Mar 27, 2020 | Life, Society
This post also appeared on Christian Today This post was co-written with my brother, Nathaniel Aspray The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This means that there is ongoing transmission worldwide, and it is expected to spread...
by Barney | Dec 14, 2017 | Apologetics, Life, Society
1. The Rise of Pluralism It used to be easy to assume that other religions are wrong and mine is obviously right, without even giving reasons. Those who belonged to ‘other religions’ were far away from me, also foreign in their culture, and clearly...
by Barney | Jul 14, 2017 | Church, Worship
‘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...
