by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 19, 2023 | Weekly News
Last week’s sermon looked at how being made in the image of God means humans share some of God’s glory. If an image is designed to reflect or represent something/someone, then humans are designed to reflect God’s glory. This does not mean humans can create our own...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 12, 2023 | Weekly News
Last week we kicked off our Term 1 sermon series on what scholars calls ‘Primaeval History’; Gen 1-11. While this is a source of much debate between Christianity and science, Christians should not be afraid of this. To begin with, science is ‘not an exact science’. ...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 5, 2023 | Weekly News
As we kicked off 2023, I decided to discuss in our Newssheet the reasons why I’m a Christian. For a belief system to be convincing, it must be (i) logically consistent, (ii) empirically verifiable, and (iii) existentially (experientially) relevant. So far I’ve...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jan 29, 2023 | Weekly News
Over January I’ve been outlining in the newssheet why I’m a Christian. Step 1 is believing in the existence of a God, rather than holding to metaphysical absurdity (i.e. the Big Bang come from nothing). Step 2 is knowing my Sin will one day demand an accounting from...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jan 22, 2023 | Weekly News
In last week’s newssheet I started outlining why I’m a Christian, beginning with how atheism requires a person to suspend reality. Using the Kalam Cosmological argument, I explained that to believe the universe burst into existence (i.e. the Big Bang) out of nothing...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jan 15, 2023 | Weekly News
Over January I thought I’d spend a few weeks in the newssheet reflecting on why I’m a Christian. Step 1 to being a Christian is of course to believe in a God. The reason I’m a theist is because as far as I can see, atheism requires adherents to suspend reality. Let...
