by Paul Beasley-Murray | Dec 19, 2017 | Opinion
Should your church “go Coptic” on Christmas Eve? I love Christmas – and all the Christmas services. Yet, in the memory all too often one special service merges into another, and none really stands out. So, this question arises: How might we create a...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Dec 6, 2017 | Opinion
A Sept. 22 headline in The Telegraph proclaimed this: “Bible passage used to stop women become ordained ‘added later,’ academic claims.” The academic in question is Philip Payne, who in the October 2017 issue of “New Testament...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Oct 18, 2017 | Opinion
John Stott once declared, “All true Christian preaching is expository preaching.” In my judgment, he is right. And yet there is more to preaching than expounding a text. We need to know what God through the Bible is saying to us now. It is not enough to...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Jun 23, 2017 | Opinion
Grieving is part of the cost of loving and takes time. It is generally reckoned that the grieving process can take anywhere between two to five years, and in some cases even longer. Clearly, the latter part of the grieving process will not be as acute as the first few...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Apr 24, 2017 | Opinion
Some 2,000 years ago, Jesus said to a handful of disciples, “I will build my church and the powers of death shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). At the time, it must have seemed the strangest of promises, but today we can celebrate that Jesus has...