by Mark Farnham | Dec 8, 2014 | Apologetics, The Church
The healthy church as an institution of apologetics has the advantage of being an explanation of the gospel by its very presence. The quality of life in a gathering of believers is a startling apologetic to a world that is critical, negative, competitive,...
by Mark Farnham | Dec 3, 2014 | Christian Living, Christian Thinkers
The true religion is not that which has no difficulties. We have to swallow mysteries with it. But we have to swallow the same mysteries without it. G. K. Chesterton Defending the Christian faith can be difficult at times. There are some questions I can’t...
by Mark Farnham | Dec 1, 2014 | Apologetics, Christian Thinkers, Evangelism
The ordinary agnostic has got his facts all wrong. He is a non-believer for a multitude of reasons, but they are untrue reasons. He doubts because the Middle Ages were barbaric, but they weren’t; because Darwinism is demonstrated, but it isn’t; because...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 30, 2014 | Apologetics, Atheism/Skepticism, Skepticism
Unless we are born again, we cannot see the kingdom of God. A man once stood on a soap box at Hyde Park Corner, pouring scorn on Christianity. “People tell me that God exists, but I can’t see him. People tell me that there is a life after death; but I...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 26, 2014 | Christian Thinkers, Theology
The novelist and essayist, Dorothy Sayers once heard a dean of Mansfield College, Oxford say that “The tragedy of all this doctrine, however interesting to theologians, is hopelessly irrelevant to the life and thought of the average man.” She responded...
