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Jesus Christ, Stumbling Block to the Jew

by | Jun 3, 2011 | Books, History

So central was this emphasis on the Messiahship of Jesus that within a few years ‘Christ’ (the Greek for Messiah) had ceased to designate Jesus’s function and had come to be a sort of surname. Now all this was peculiarly offensive to the Jew. It was...

Greek in the Spread of Early Christianity

by | May 30, 2011 | Books, Culture, History

From Michael Green’s classic Evangelism in the Early Church: The advantages for the Christian mission of having a common language can hardly be overestimated. It did away with the necessity for missionary language schools. Missionaries using it would incur none...

One-to-One Bible Reading

by | May 26, 2011 | Bible, Books, Church

Preface: If you go to Redeemer Church in Lincoln, we have extra copies of this book that I want to give away. Please don’t be shy–contact me, and I will get you a copy. I want this book to be a resource for evangelism, discipleship, and leadership training...

Augustine on Coercing People into the Kingdom

by | Oct 9, 2008 | Books, Church, Theology

Does anyone doubt that it is preferable for people to be drawn to worship God by teaching rather than forced by fear of punishment or by pain? But because the one type of people are better, it does not mean that the others, who are not of that type, ought to be...

Augustine on Sparing the Wicked

by | Oct 1, 2008 | Bible, Books, Theology

Augustine took the view that the Church should advocate in the secular realm on behalf of the wicked, that governments might not punish the wicked for what they deserve. This inspired a letter from someone claiming that to do so would, in effect, give approval to the...

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