Currently reading: Evangelism - Now and Then by Michael Green 📚
Currently reading: Evangelism - Now and Then by Michael Green 📚
Finished reading: What is the Gospel? by Greg Gilbert 📚 So, Henry, what is the Gospel?!
Finished reading: I Can’t Help Praising the Lord The Life of Billy Bray by F. W. Bourne 📚 on 25th May 2026. Billy Bray died on 25th May 1868.
Quite a life!
Finished reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 📚 Perhaps cliche to say, but this and Crime and Punishment do earn their, ought I to say?, rightful places as among my most loved books! Rereadings now to follow, maybe different translations. Done with Anna Karenina I feel capable of tackling War and Peace in 2027 God-willing. Such a great read!
I have written an article on Substack, arguing for the need to confess our sins as a practical step to being delivered from them. I have also quoted a long passage from Lewis’s The Great Divorce.
I posted an article on Substack about how we are sometimes wrong to think that we are in charge.
Currently reading: Total Truth Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey 📚
p.250
the key to restoring a unified concept of truth is to recover a robust concept of creation. Christianity has always taught that there is “a single reality” because it was created by a single omnipotent and all-wise God, explains one historical account. “Given this creation story, it followed that knowledge, too, comprised a single whole.” It was the doctrine of creation that undergirded confidence in the unity of truth. To be loyal to the great claims of our faith, we can no longer acquiesce in letting Christianity be shunted aside to the value sphere. We must throw off metaphysical timidity, be convinced that we have a winning case, and take the offensive. Armed with prayer and spiritual power, we need to ask God to show us where the battle is being fought today, and enlist under the Lordship and leadership of Christ
Shadow of the Almighty by Elizabeth Elliot, p.75
Jim Elliot: “Been much in the psalms lately at noontime—incidentally, I would exhort you each to begin taking a few moments out with your Lover …
Finished reading: The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen 📚. What am I to say about it?
We must pay close attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it, Hebrews 2:1 It is easier to drift away from godliness, than it is to drift towards it. Godliness requires discipline, focus, and intention. Each day is meant to be lived for the enjoyment of God, for the glory of God, and as a blessing to others. The salvation we have received is precious, and we should take heed so that we lose it not, but receive a full reward, 2 John v8