Author Archives: The Briefing
Stem cells from pigheads
Couldn't Help Noticing
A perfectly reasonable explanation
Review
The cross and Islam: an evangelistic starting point
Things you gotta: Gotta serve somebody
Making Jews jealous: another look at Romans 9-11
Life
In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he says that he is not “ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile” (Rom 1:16). In what sense is the gospel “first for the Jew”? What does this mean for Christians today?
Fantasy literature and Christian readers
Chuck Colson’s website, BreakPoint online, ran an interview with the author Connie Neal, who has written a book called What’s A Christian to Do with Harry Potter? (discussed below). Soon afterwards, he published a disclaimer, saying that he did not “encourage Christian parents to encourage their children to see the movie or read the books” because “there is much better literature available for children with less potential to lead people into the occult”. This seemed to run counter to an earlier piece by Colson (se p.14 of Neal’s book) which spoke positively of the books’ value for children.
Still room for commentaries
Interchange
Change the way you look
The Prayer of Jabez and other misuses of the Bible
Review
THE Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
Bruce H. Wilkinson
Multnomah Publishers, 2000.Hardcover, 96pp.
It is a #1 bestseller in Christian bookstores. In fact, it was a #1 New York Times bestseller. It is a book that promises to revolutionize your life. It is called The Prayer of Jabez. (more…)
The Mantra of Jabez
Couldn't Help Noticing
Apologies-the sorry state of academia
Review
The unity of the church
Thought
The second in a series of essays on the subject of unity. John Woodhouse examines what it means for the church to seek unity here on earth. (Read part one and part three online.)