Posted in Articles on Apr 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
The Bible talk at Emmanuel today referred to a different view of God that is becoming increasingly common. Known as ‘open theism’ or ‘the openness of God theory’, it is suggested that God does not know all that is going to happen in the future.
Prof Greg Boyd of Bethel College in America, writes: In [...]
Posted in Articles on Apr 12th, 2007 No Comments »
We’ve got used to the Somerfield press release scenario. The hapless individual who (this Easter) said that the supermarket’s range of Easter eggs and other seasonal products was part of the traditional celebration at this time of Christ’s birthday. A second attempt corrected it to ‘… Christ’s rebirth’. The third vaguely suggested that it was [...]
Posted in Articles on Mar 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Back in January a number of us went to a conference run by the Midlands Gospel Partnership. Growing Churches looked at the issue of church-planting, which we found particularly relevant at the beginning of a new church.
Posted in Articles on Feb 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
We have bought copies of the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible to use as our church Bibles. Some people have been wondering why, particularly because most people probably use the New International Version.
There are many different versions of the Bible now available. At one end of the spectrum are those that [...]
