Monthly Archives: May 2021

If you have been a believer in God and His Son Jesus Christ for any reasonable length of time, you have been encouraged to read The Bible.  My history of Bible reading has been circuitous at best; maybe a better … Continue reading →

In Chapter Three* of his book Basic Christianity, John Stott is trying to introduce Jesus Christ to people who really don’t know Him well.  In the previous post entitled “The Character of Christ,” I commented on Stott’s argument that Jesus’ … Continue reading →

As I turn from Stott’s analysis of how man and God handle sin and forgiveness in The Cross of Christ [Chapter Four] I refocus our attention on Stott’s book Basic Christianity [Chapter Three].  I don’t want to spend much time … Continue reading →

I am going to write a statement that is extremely elementary. Man struggles with the problem of sinning. Yet in Chapter Four of John Stott’s book, the title is “The Problem of Forgiveness,” which explores man’s sinning from God’s perspective.  … Continue reading →