5 Questions about Church you may like to ponder....

Our new small (life/calle/house/church) group met for the first time tonight, and we talked about the nature of Church. Warm up was some nice fuzzy questioins designed to get people thinking about church in different ways. I’d be interested in your thoughts and responses. Anyway they were; If you were to describe you experience of church as a smell what would it be? What Church was a flavour what should it taste...

The Smell of Coffee...

Growing up, the smell of brewing coffee was a familiar smell. My father loves coffee….it was the smell of the morning.  I also love coffee shops…you know, the evil chain ones!! Where no matter where you are in the world, you step in, and are immediately engulfed by a warmth and a familiar smell that makes you feel right at home. My Aunt and Uncle love coffee too, and  I have many distinctive memories of the...

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...