Churches Without Chests
Identifying Authorities
Within the avalanche of information coming at us, how do we identify true authorities in…
Who Made You the Authority?
The explosion of information on the web has made the idea of authoritative information almost…
Authority and Authoritarianism
When authority is usually discussed, about three sentences later, the word authoritarian will make its entrance.…
Pastors – Become Literate in Christian Culture
David de Bruyn
April 19, 2017
When the topic of music and worship comes up, a favourite slap-down argument against thoughtful…
Authority – Its Origin
The English words authority and author come from the same Latin root, auctor – an…
Ten Mangled Words – “Authority” (1)
The popular consciousness has knee-jerk reflexes when it comes to authority. Play the word-association game…
Judging Areas of Freedom (5)
Modern Christians are in the habit of labelling all sorts of things as ‘matters of…
Matters of Conscience and Freedom (4)
Scripture devotes two sections of the New Testament to explain how certain choices in the…
Freedom and Churches (3)
A church is a voluntary society. Baptists believe that people join churches by choice, not…
Freedom (2) – Societal and Individual
Liberty is the absence of unwarranted coercion, leaving the human open to persuasion and his…
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