Church History Lectures 2013

The lecture dates for next year have been finalised though the titles may need a little tweaking. Here’s the dates for your diary. February 11th 2013. Richard Brooks, Octavius Winslow 1808 – 1878 March 4th 2013. Daffyd Morris, Subject TBA April 8th 2013. Geoff Thomas, Cornelius Van Til

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An Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics

Geoff Thomas kindly forwarded ‘An Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics’ by Ian Clary. It doesn’t go into an enormous amount of detail but is well worth a read to get a taste for the Presuppositional method. After a brief introduction Clary outlines The Task of Apologetics as fourfold going on to briefly summarise the three schools of thought, Evidential, Classical [...]

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Rally for Reason

Taking a look at the Atheist Rally for Reason website makes one wonder if they really know what they are doing. The reason (there’s that word) I say this is because there are so many Christian books that encourage or use reason, so many in fact, that it might be profitable to list them here. [...]

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History Lecture – Axminster after 1662 – Audio Available

The Audio for this excellent lecture by Stephen Rees is now available. Either listen here: Or right-click HERE to download. Related articles Church History Lecture – Axminster Ecclesiastica 1600-1698 (xercised.wordpress.com) 1662 and all that (eardstapa.wordpress.com) Church History Lectures 2012 (xercised.wordpress.com)

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Church History Lecture – Axminster Ecclesiastica 1600-1698

This evening we heard the second of this years Church History Lectures. And what a lecture it was! What a privilege to be there. And what a challenge to our generation! The Lecture was given by Steven Rees, minister of Stockport Grace Baptist Church with the title ‘A Church in the Wilderness  - Axminster after 1662′. This is another lecture [...]

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The Problem of Evil – 1

The Problem of Evil has been described as the Achilles Heal of the Christian faith and when discussing Christianity in almost any context this ‘problem’ or difficulty in one form or another is raised as an objection to the Christian faith. I read yesterday morning the best explanation I have read or heard. As  point of interest, [...]

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God Is Not Great: Christopher Hitchens

Now I have a Kindle it’s so easy to download and buy stuff – that’s good and bad. It’s good, for example because amongst other things I bought ‘God is not Great‘ for £0.99p. It’s bad because no matter what the format I still have to find time to read the stuff. A window of opportunity opened [...]

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‘Against All Odds’ by Paul Connolly

I’ve just finished reading ‘Against All Odds’ by Paul Connolly - Kindle edition. It’s quite a brave book to write, it’s honestly written and pulls no punches (pun intended). The early chapters are quite a harrowing account of life in an institution till he was forced to leave at the age of 17. Paul was abandoned at [...]

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Into the New Year 2012

Happy New Year to one and all. Here’s C H Spurgeon’s Morning devotional for January 1st: “They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.” –Joshua 5:12  Israel’s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they [...]

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Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year to everyone. Many thanks for visiting & commenting and some of you actually liked it. May God richly bless you in the New Year. Here’s the text of C H Spurgeon’s Evening devotional for December 31st: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” –Jeremiah 8:20   [...]

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Kindle Surprise!

You’ve seen those Kindle things – all over the place they are. I’ve kind of looked at them. Well, now I have one. My kids clubbed together to buy one for Christmas. Not ever really thinking about buying one, it was s bit of a surprise and the thought ran through my mind – will [...]

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David Cameron, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Luther and Christianity

I cannot claim to see inside the heart of any man – this is the prerogative of God Himself ‘I the Lord search the heart’ but upon reading the recent speech by the Prime Minister I am left wondering what the (short-lived) fuss was about. He epitomises the art of the politician – to say [...]

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The Whole Armour of God

Not sure whether the title of this post would attract would be Jihadist ‘Warriors’ or Christians looking for encouragement in the Spiritual Warfare. If you are a Jihadist let me encourage you to lay down your arms at the feet of King Jesus and serve Him only and find refuge. Psalm 2:12  ‘Kiss the Son, [...]

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islam – Book Review

I seem to have posted rather a lot on Islam of late. This wasn’t really intentional it’s just that circumstances – admittedly an existing interest – seemed to dictate. This was partly due to the programs aired by the BBC and I still have to post on aspects of these. The programs were a little [...]

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Van Til – Still Speaking

A very interesting occurrence took place today. I had to get a new exhaust section fitted to the car this morning. I don’t know how it is with you but it’s normal to take a book with me most places I go. Hmm, what to take. Ah ha, I’ll take ‘The Defence of the Faith’ [...]

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