End Times Stuff – Part 4...

For the last 3 posts in this series I have challenged the classic pentecostal pre millennial stance on the end times. However I think it would be unfair to do so without offering some king of alternative. The first looking at what we know as clear and basic biblical truth, then  I want to look at what this means in terms of biblical intrepretation and how we read the bible. The basic truths about the end times which I...

End Times Stuff – Part 3...

At the end of part 2 I asked the question, “why is this subject important?”  Why do I really want to kick up a stink about it? It’s done and dusted and lots of people have moved on. If Paul wants to teach a literalistic, fundamentalist, interpretation of end times theology, why bother to make an issue of it? The church has had a tough year, we don’t need more controversy do we ? Firstly, I don’t...

End Times Stuff Part 2...

So I have said that I disagree with both the stance that Paul took recently, and the decision to preach that stance from the pulpit in my previous post, but I have not really put together an argument on why I think it was in error. I think it’s only fair to do so or else it is simply a case of just shouting ‘Yarboo sucks’ very loudly and I would like to try to be more constructive than that. First, I think...

End Times Stuff – Part I...

First off I want to say I have got a lot of time for Paul Williams.  He is a decent man, and I think that himself and Merle  have brought much good stuff to New Life church in recent years. However I do need to say that I think the recent series on the end times that  he brought to New Life was a mistake, that the theology was in error and many of the ‘factoids’  he used to back up his theories were just...