Yearly Archives: 2005

Books on living the Christian life are a dime a dozen. The shelves of Christian bookstores bow under the weight of myriad titles promising freedom from bondage, secrets of debt free living, keys to loving other people, and a whole host of other practical matters. But the one that has weighed in most heavily of […]

Dr. Fred Malone of First Baptist Church in Clinton, Louisiana says that his church has weathered the hurricane well. They do have branches and trees down all around them. However, the Lord has been very good in protecting the church building itself and the homes of the members of the church. They do not have […]

On his 89th birthday (August 31) NPR Senior News Analyst, Daniel Schorr, observed that President Bush had “staked out a non-position†on the debate between evolution and intelligent design. Bush had said that “both sides ought to be properly taught in the schools of America.†Then, with manifest scorn, Schorr linked the devastation of Hurricane […]

Until recently, my family and I regularly attended a nearby evangelical, Protestant church, one which is spiritually sound and has done much for the Gospel over the years. Throughout our ten years in that church, we certainly benefited from the preaching and teaching we heard, but we were also privileged, at times, to take part […]

The theme of the 16th annual Zambian Reformed Conference was “Missions – The Unfinished Task”. From Monday 22nd to Friday 26th August, the two main speakers, Paul Washer from the USA and Ronald Kalifungwa from South Africa, brought messages that left the challenge of missions looming large before our minds. Paul Washer showed us the […]

“The Times Literary Supplement, in its issue of 29 July, carried a seven-column article by the celebrated philosopher Jerry Fodor of Rutgers University, which relentlessly demolished the concept of Evolutionary Psychology, one of the pillars of the imposing mansion of orthodoxy occupied by the Darwinians. Fodor is particularly scathing about Dawkins and his leading American […]

1.He lives in another, Gal. ii. 20. He is wise in another, 1 Cor. i. 30. He is righteous in another, Rom. x. 4. He is strong in another, Isaiah xlv. 24. 2.He is very low in humility, but very high in hope. He knows he is undeserving of the least mercy, yet expects the […]

On a summer’s day in July, 1555 a stake was set up outside the Star Inn, in the county town of Lewes, Sussex. The order had been given – Deryk Carver was to be burned, and his Bible to be burned with him. He was led out to a large barrel surrounded by wood. His […]

“The rights of women, what are they? The right to labour, love and pray, The right to weep, with those that weep, The right to wake when others sleep. The right to dry the falling tear, The right to quell the rising fear, The right to smooth the brow of care And whisper comfort in […]

“Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church” (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2005) is a new book written by Don Carson. The Emergent (or Emerging) Church is hardly a dozen years old and already it is has reached a level of considerable importance. Indeed, it is argued that the term is out of date; it has already emerged! […]

A date of great significance for the worldwide communion of the Reformed Churches is August 24 – ‘St. Bartholomew’s Day.’ It is remembered for the terrible massacre of Huguenots in France in 1572. They were amazing Christian men and women whose testimony must never be forgotten. I believe that, though often caricatured and misunderstood by […]

MaozNews News about events in Israel and the ministry in which the Maoz family is involved The Disengagement By the time our readers receive this issue of MaozNews, all or most of the Israeli settlements in Gaza and those designated for evacuation in northern Samaria will have been evacuated. It has been a heart-rending experience […]

“So is everyone that is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8) Probably no passage of Scripture has caused more contention than John 3:7, where Christ Jesus said: “Ye must be born again”. An alternative translation is “born from above”. Maybe this helps to clarify the meaning. Nevertheless, the perception, fostered by the media. that there […]

Comments on Ephesians, chapter 2, taken from the writings of Thomas Goodwin, President of Magdalen College, Oxford 1650. In Ephesians chapter 2, the Apostle having described our lost condition by nature goes on to enumerate the benefits we have in and by Christ. But not sooner does Paul state the first blessing a soul experiences, […]

From ‘The Eternal Predestination Of God’, a treatise by John Calvin, 1552. The salvation of believers depends upon the eternal election of God for which no cause or reason can be rendered but his own gratuitous good pleasure. God calls [converts], justifies, and glorifies, no one but him whom he had ordained unto eternal life. […]