// archives

Bible

RSS feed for this section
This category contains 1252 posts

Disclaimer

‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

What Easter is all about

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.(G M Hopkins, ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’) Most early Christians were Jews who were used to celebrating religious festivals at various times in the year (Passover, Tabernacles, Pentecost etc.). So Christians were encouraged to follow the great events […]

End of Year Message

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

An End-Of-Year Message (A sermon preached on the last Sunday of the year). This week we’ll be looking back over the past, analysing the present, and setting goals for the future. For many of us the past year may have been a year we’d prefer to forget. For some, death has invaded their lives, and […]

— Next »