by Brendan McLaughlin | Aug 6, 2017 | Weekly News
In recent weeks we’ve been looking at how some Christians twist the Scriptures to justify an abusive relationship. This week I wish to look at what the Bible says a healthy marriage should look like, so that we can better diagnose an abusive one. To begin with,...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jul 30, 2017 | Weekly News
Last week we looked at the evil of spousal abuse, which recent research indicates has a high prevalence in SPORADIC attenders of conservative evangelical Christian churches. Since our church sits right in this category, statistically speaking there may well be...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jul 23, 2017 | Weekly News
The Christian Church was in the news this week (newspaper and TV) as part of a series on domestic violence and religion. Domestic violence is of course a horrible scourge on society, and so any reasonable and balanced research into this topic should be welcomed; even...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jul 16, 2017 | Weekly News
The final of the five sola statements turns out to be the most important; ‘to the glory of God alone’. It declares is that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is ‘to bring glory to God’. This statement more than the other four rules out good works as a...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jul 2, 2017 | Weekly News
The next instalment in our ‘Five Solae’ statements is that salvation is ‘found in the Scriptures alone’. The importance of this statement lies in that it argues against the Roman Catholic view that the final authority on earth is the Church. As such, if the Roman...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jun 25, 2017 | Weekly News
We’ve been looking over the past few weeks at the ‘Five Solae’ statements of the Reformation, which summarise how one is saved. The third of these is ‘Christ Alone’, which is something the Christian Church has been debating since Acts Chapter 15. The very first...
