As part of our teaching series on Reasons for Hope, this Sunday 1/6 at our 10 am worship time we will be considering the claims and Islam against Christianity. Our speaker is Kamran Nazir who was born and raised in an Islamic context and will soon be working in a predominantly Islamic setting as a … Continue reading The wisdom of Islam and the foolishness of Christianity.
How big is our God? | Isaiah 45, Psalm 8
On the 14th of February 1990, the Voyager space probe took its last photo, an image of Earth from a distance of over 6 billion kilometres. In it, Earth can be seen taking up less than a pixel in the vastness of space. The author, Carl Sagan, later published his interpretation of the image in … Continue reading How big is our God? | Isaiah 45, Psalm 8
The two books of God | Psalm 19
Does the natural world point beyond itself to a creator or does it simply proclaim its own glory? This debate has spanned millennia, yet in our time we know that that bulk of what makes up the cosmos is largely unknown to us. That the universe depends on things or forces we do not yet … Continue reading The two books of God | Psalm 19
Reasons for God
I admit, church is weird for those of us who were not raised in it, but now some wonder - why are these people still standing at their posts? Why are the churches growing? After the acids of biblical criticism in the mid-twentieth century, the imaginary straw men of Christianity that the new atheists burnt … Continue reading Reasons for God
