Anonymous asks: Thoughts on this? http://bit.ly/lScR5M The link goes to a news.com.au article about courses run by Bethel Church in California that “claim to teach people how to heal the sick and even raise the dead.” Apparently these courses are coming to Australia via Holyfire Ministry Training school and others. Two points in one direction: [...]
Archive for May, 2011
When the Innocent Fleeth
Friday, May 27th, 2011It’s been a while since the case of Lesley Pilkington came to everyone’s attention Mrs Pilkington is a Christian therapist who had disciplinary procedures pursued against her by a homosexual activist who surreptitiously recorded his sessions with her because she offered him, at his persistent but duplicitous request, therapy for apparently unwanted homosexual attraction. A number of [...]
Follow Friday
Thursday, May 26th, 2011My friend Sally Oakley has started a blog at http://oakleythoughtso.blogspot.com/ She writes A bit of a working title. It’s an idea James and I have had, to write (perhaps together?) about our experiences of depression. It sounds depressing, I know, but the idea would be to make it extremely practical and readable; something that anyone [...]
Venerable Venables
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Excellent interview with Archbishop Greg Venables, former primate of the Southern Cone. His has always been a forthright voice in the Anglican tumult. Of particular note is his reference to GAFCON in the light of the non-attendance at this year’s Primates’ Meeting in Dublin. My paraphrase – “We are not here to fight liberalism. We’ve [...]
Q&A: How should we speak when confronted about Harold Camping?
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Anonymous asks: How do you think we should respond, when confronted about him [Harold Camping] and others? One ‘whacky’ minister, gets more media attention than a million faithful followers or a thousand faithful preachers(from my experience) and the faithful witness of neighbours is undone by the preaching of someone who seems to be seriously misguided, but [...]
Q&A: What do you think of Everyone draw Muhammad day?
Friday, May 20th, 2011Anonymous asks: What do you think of Everyone draw Muhammad day? I hadn’t heard of it, and you made me go look it up. I suspect my thoughts are not particularly novel and are necessarily initial. Mixed feelings. I sympathise with the free speech sentiment. I am, of course, appalled that someone’s cartoon should lead [...]
Q&A: Should we stone Harold Camping as a false prophet on the 22nd?
Friday, May 20th, 2011Anonymous asks: So, shall we all do the Deuteronomical thing and stone Harold as a false prophet on the 22nd? Nope. Two reasons: 1) Assuming a strict application of the “deuteronomical thing” the stoning of a false prophet is found in Deuteronomy 13 where from my (quick) reading (and correct me if I’m wrong) the [...]
Q&A: Can you give us your thoughts on Harold Camping’s prophecies concerning May 21?
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Anonymous asks: Can you give us your thoughts and reflection upon Harold Camping’s prophecies regarding the nearing rapture on May 21? Is there anything I need to do in preparation? Do we assume that anyone who is still around after Sunday isn’t a Christian? Anonymous asks: Further to my earlier anonymous question: http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/judgment/judgment.html To which I [...]
Mouneer Anis in Tasmania
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Bishop John informs us that Archbishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt, pictured, will be a keynote speaker at January’s CMS Summerview conference in Tasmania. I’ve written about Abp. Anis a number of times with reference to both the religious tumult in Egypt and the ecclesiastical tumult in the Anglican Communioin. I have been impressed by his [...]
The Bible and the Ability to Read
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011David Kerr at future bible talks about the difficulty in assessing the required reading level of different versions of the Bible. He illustrates with the following table which uses an undefined metric. Bible Translation By Grade Level Translation Grade Level KJV 12 RSV 12 NASB 11 NRSV 11 ESV 10 NIV 7-8 HCSB 7-8 Translation [...]
