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Anglican Miracles
This article was written in response to questions about the Anglican view of miracles. The questions came from people who wanted to explore the claims of Christianity and the Anglican…
1 John 5.1-12. Truth, love & obedience – overcome
We feel enormously uncomfortable distinguishing between those who are Christian and those who are not within the church. John doesn’t. In fact, he has left the church tests by which…
1 John 4.13-21. Love, truth & fear (Trinity)
Perfect love drives out fear. In this part of his letter John gives the struggling Christian church assurance about the signs they belong to Jesus namely: the Spirit of God…
1 John 4.7-12. Love is not love (Pentecost)
Love is our most powerful and most abused four letter word. The poet W. H Auden in his famous poem about love wrote: ‘Law like love I say. Like law…
1 John 3.18-24. Love, not hate
Michael Flynn In a world of moral ambiguity it is hard to decide who are the good, the bad or the good-bad or even the bad-good guys. It all leaves…
1 John 3.1-10. Doing good
How do we recognise people from the same family? Physical traits? Habits? Interests? The question John asks is how do we recognise a child of God? The question is still…
Child Safety that risks Volunteers
Michael Flynn (May 2022) I revised this article by adding a comparision of minimum and maximum requirements from different organisations for working with children as a response to comments that…
1 John 2.18-29. Division
I do not want to make judgements on whether someone is a Christian or not if they claim to be one. However, John unsettles my tolerant comfort because he writes…
1 John 2.7-17. The old is new
To derail trust in God we simply present a new thing to trust in. This sales pitch will be effective because, in our city ‘new’ means more up-to-date, more relevant,…