Matt preached the Easter Sunday message at Takanini Community Church this morning. Listen to his message “Contemplating the Resurrection Accounts” online or download it as an MP3. (Read Matthew 28:1-15 first.) Related post: Good Friday: The Ritual of Contemplating the Cross
Entries Tagged as 'Easter'
Easter Sunday: Contemplating the Resurrection Accounts
March 31st, 2013 2 Comments
Tags: Apologetics · Easter · MP3 · Preaching
Good Friday: The Ritual of Contemplating the Cross
March 29th, 2013 1 Comment
Matt preached the Good Friday message at Takanini Community Church this morning. Listen to his message “The Ritual of Contemplating the Cross” online or download it as an MP3. (Read John 19 first.) Related post: Good Friday: Why Celebrate Easter?
Tags: Easter · Good Friday · MP3 · Preaching
Jesus, Hot Cross Buns, Easter Eggs, Ishtar and Constantine: Is Easter Pagan? Tim McGrew says No!
April 6th, 2012 24 Comments
Easter can be annoying. My kids all want chocolate, this year the hot cross buns sold out and Matt brought crumpets home from the supermarket instead. People who don’t normally have any time for Christianity suddenly feel they must go to church, whilst some of my Christian friends refuse to let their children eat chocolate […]
Tags: Constantine · Easter · Ishtar · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · Tim McGrew
Good Friday
April 2nd, 2010 Comments Off on Good Friday
Due to extreme business we’ve not had time to write Easter posts but last year’s Good Friday: Why Celebrate Easter? is worth a read or a re-read. It remains one of our most read blog posts of all time and with good reason – Matt’s own personal faith shines through it. Also, for those in […]
Tags: Easter · Good Friday
Hear Matt Preach on the Resurrection
March 19th, 2010 21 Comments
Matt will be preaching on the Resurrection at Massey Presbyterian Church, 510 Don Buck Rd, Massey, Waitakere City, Auckland on Sunday 11 April at the 9.30am service. All welcome. If you cannot make it that Sunday he will be repeating the sermon at the Riverhead Presbyterian Church, Cnr Arthur and Gt North Rds, Riverhead, Auckland, […]
Tags: Easter · Massey Presbyterian Church · Preaching · Resurrection · Riverhead Presbyterian Church
Good Friday: Why Celebrate Easter?
April 10th, 2009 85 Comments
Last Sunday Christian, my eldest son, asked me “what is the point in baptism?” In the ensuing conversation it became clear that his real struggle was with the idea of ‘ritual ceremony’ and the symbolism involved. Christian has Aspergers Syndrome and is quite literal (which is is a typical Aspie trait). Ceremonies are often metaphorical; […]
Tags: Aspergers Syndrome · Easter · Good Friday · Theology
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
