This was the text for today's sermon. Barry pointed out that the very rulers wer are to pray for were persecuting the faithful and stopping them for living a quiet and peaceable life -- and how we should pray for blessings on those we are in conflict… Read More

This really flows on from yesterday, but I will inflict another hamster wheel here. Instead I need to talk about the balance that the reformed bring to Christendom. For we are often accused of Bible worship. Of not considering tradition (at all)… Read More

This may annoy my Protestant friends, but morality is objective. Until quite recently, this was not in dispute: a reformed minister might argue with a Anglo-Catholic Priest about the meaning of communion and both may argue with their Jesuit… Read More

Many people thing Jesus was nice. Now excuse me while I go laugh somewhere. For Jesus was not nice. Righteousness is not nice, and justice is not pretty.

Matthew 5:1-10

¹When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he…

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Wisdom is one of these things that is very hard to define, but easy to see. It is shown in the life you live more than the words you say. I spent some time with my Dad. He's not an academic -- he became a teacher in a way that is now obsolete --… Read More