Doctrine

Paul’s first letter to Timothy is full of goodness. Terms for ‘good’ appear 25 times in the letter. That should lead us to expect that 1 Timothy would bring us delight, joy, peace, and satisfaction in God’s goodness. But when we come to read or teach…

We know a glorious God. A God worth trembling before. Look at the opening words of Isaiah 66: Thus says the Lord: ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool…’ A king who uses our planet, all 5.9 sex­tillion tonnes of it, as a footstool. This…

During the lead up to the same-sex mar­riage plebiscite in 2017, I remember being surprised at the number of Christian peo­ple in my own circles who could confidently say ‘I know what the Bible teaches about homosexuality’, whilst at the same…

In Spurgeon’s Lectures to my Students, in ad­dressing the matter of ‘The Sermon’, Spurgeon exhorts his students ‘to give a clear testimony to all the doctrines which constitute or lie around the gospel.’ His point is simple. Some preachers…