The author of this gem of a booklet pastors Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, U.S.A. John Piper is a thought-provoking, prolific, sometimes provocative, but always Bible-centred, author.
I’d come across his book Don’t Waste Your Life, but the title of this booklet stopped me in my tracks - Don’t Waste Your Cancer…?! This grabbed my attention (as intended!).
If we are really honest, our immediate reaction to the word cancer is always negative, and probably everyone reading this either knows someone who has got, or has had, cancer – or has experienced it themselves.... continue reading
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5 v 17 – 6 v 2
Reconciliation is God restoring the friendship with Him that we broke by sinning. Jesus became like us (treated by God as His enemy) so that we might become more like God.
There's another rainbow I regularly see in the Good Book Company offices. And it's not welcome!
As we are an ĂĽber-cool organisation, we work on Apple Macs - the Ferraris of the computing world.
Mac users are known for being loyal evangelists of the brand, but at the risk of being branded a hardware heretic by the Mac-zealots , there are times when I could happily throw mine out of the window. There are times when, inexplicably, it just seizes up, and instead of a wristwatch ticking round, or a progress bar creeping across the screen, you get what is colloquially known as "The spinning wheel of death".... continue reading
There are many ways to cheat in order to win an argument without having to actually defend your view. One is to call your opponent a “Nazi”. Another is to label them a “bigot”.
In an interesting blog this week, Ed West quotes a surprising turn of events. The National Secular Society’s attacking the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) which asked a Christian blogger, to justify placing a Coalition for Marriage advert on his blog.
Here’s what they said:... continue reading
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It's officially the wettest drought on record in England.
Since the hosepipe ban in the South East started 6 weeks ago, it just hasn't stopped raining. The unrelenting grey gloom out of the window of The Good Book Company offices in Epsom is only interrupted by the occasional delight of a rainbow. The appearance of which tells us that the latest shower has passed by, and the sun is out.... continue reading
If you’ve ever found it hard to keep your priorities right or your diary tight... If you’ve ever wondered how to stay engaged and enthusiastic in whatever ministry God has equipped you to serve... then you have experienced a struggle that is common to most of us who are active in the local church. A struggle that, if not addressed carefully and biblically, can drag us down.
At a seminar at the Christian Resources Exhibition last week a group of church administrators and I spent 45 minutes looking at how we could use the principle of purposeful pairs to help us persevere in the face of such difficulties.... continue reading
