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Category: Counter culture

A Certain Sound through Preaching

How are we to answer the exigencies and anxieties of the hour? What tone of voice and approach should we … More

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

Why we still need nuance

One of the unfortunate things about words is how readily weaponised they are. Language, by its very essence, is in … More

Christianity, Culture, Nuance, Public Square

National movements and gospel work

With the momentum of secular ideology in Western Culture, with its seemingly irresistible social force, and its harnessing of media … More

Abortion, Local Church, Morality, Social Action

Varied Apostasy

Proclaiming honest doubt and articulating unbelief are not as new as we may think they are. One of the notes … More

Apostasy, Doubt, truth, Unbelief

The value of a single soul

Metrics really matter in our current moment in Western culture. By them we can measure the popularity of a movement, … More

Christianity, Fellowship, Local Church, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Souls

The cessation of virtue

With the now ubiquitous use of social media, we have come to democratise our ethics and publicise our convictions on … More

Christianity, Culture, Freedom of Conscience, Freedom of Speech, meaning, postmodernism, Social Media

Barbed wire boy

I went to an all boys high school (comprehensive) in 1980s/90s Northern Ireland, a place where a friend’s mother bluntly … More

Christianity, Culture, Freedom of Speech, Homophobia, meaning

You are the traffic

One of the best advertising slogans I have witnessed appeared in the very worst of places. In the furred arterial … More

Christianity, Evangelism, Ministry, priorities, service, Worship

Quiet and deep Christianity

Ours is an age of fragmentation, of intellectual hopscotch, of results-oriented activity on the one hand and mindless entertainment on … More

Busyness, Christianity, Doctrine, Quietness, Reverence, Stress, Worship
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