Church

  • Church

    Baptist Worship, July 2003 Worse  than a weary way, brought us  almost too worn to take any more at last  to The bread in the Lord’s Supper Surprise, gentle sure nourishment   How did we, ill-shod feet shuffling rough paths,  Death marching, come to such a grace station?    More  By perversity than perseverance Idle habit,  deference…

  • Sin drops us in it at the threshold of forgiveness

    1 Introduction:  This sketch is significant for me, since it is the first time I have got near to defining sin as what brings us to the threshold of forgiveness. That may not be a new idea altogether, but I can’t remember finding it plainly anywhere. Luther and Barth give me some encouragement in that direction, but…

  • God so loved the world

    Presidential Address to the Yorkshire Baptist Association, 1985 Allow me first one personal remark. What I have to say may sound like a lecture; I ask you to hear it as a testimony. It describes something of what it has been given to me to discover, to imagine, to think and to seek for, in…