» 1. White hot faith

As we stand before the cross, we begin to gain a clear view both of God and ourselves, especially in relation to each other. Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place. Hell is the only alternative. This is the ‘scandal’, the stumbling block, of the [...]

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath [...]

With mere spirituality the Church has not much directly to do. . .

Christian faith is neither spirituality nor charity. Its revelation is the holiness in judgment of the spiritual and loving God. Love if only divine as it is holy; and spirituality is Christian only as it meets the conditions of Holy Love [...]

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. ... Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends are but shadows, but enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God [...]

Once you have made the world an end and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours.

Screwtape to [...]

Will the last Presbyterian please turn out the lights?

The Presbyterian Church USA is hemorrhaging.

According to the number crunchers at denominational headquarters, membership loss for the denomination in 2005 was estimated at sixty-five thousand, followed by an eighty-five thousand projected loss in 2006.

The projected 2006 loss would represent a single-year decline of 3.7 percent, the highest [...]

If there were only one prayer which I might pray before I died, it should be this: ‘Lord, send Thy Church men filled with the Holy Ghost and with fire.’ Give to any denomination such men, and its progress must be mighty: keep back such men, send them college gentlemen, of great refinement and [...]

April 9, this year marks one hundred years since the Azusa Street Revival which launched Pentecostalism as a dynamic movement.

Zero to half a billion in 100 years is not a bad record for a movement.

Don’t try and understand Pentecostalism and it’s significance simply by watching Christian TV. The vast majority of Pentecostals are from the [...]

This crude graffiti cartoon from the early second century, may be the oldest depiction of Christ.

In the drawing we see Alexamenos bowing down before a crucified man with the head of a donkey.

The Greek caption reads “Alexamenos sebete theon” — Alexamenos worships his god.This early graffito (wall-scratching; singular of graffiti) was discovered in 1857 in [...]

While I’m body surfing at One Mile Beach beach here’s an mp3 file on the first of the five characteristics of dynamic movements — white-hot faith.

No prizes for guessing who’s got the better end of the deal.