After Martin Luther launched the Reformation on October 31, 1517, prompting some Christians to celebrate Reformation Sunday this week, a rebellion followed about seven years later. Charles Brammall recounts the mystical influence behind the Reformation’s early split when peasants rebelled.… Continue Reading
My early years as a Christian included a couple of nervous breakdowns, one of them quite severe. A desire to please God, to be rid of sin, and a failure to see that sanctification is God’s work, not mine, sent… Continue Reading
A recording of a speech that sent shockwaves around the evangelical world, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaking in 1966 in London, has been rediscovered and made public on the internet by the Martyn Lloyd-Jones trust. A Youtube version is here. (A… Continue Reading
From the Two Pennies Facebookers He was supposed to be a caretaker pope. A placeholder. The cardinals thought he had a year or two in him at most. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born in 1881 in a village near Bergamo,… Continue Reading
Not every Bible passage is clear, and one that has perplexed many is the subject of a recovered sermon from St Augustine of Hippo, recently identified after lying in the diocesan library of Pelpin, in Pomerania, Poland. A researcher examining… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall examines Luther for Reformation Day A commissioned a friend to knit a beautiful Martin Luther hat, which I wore to church this morning. We celebrated the day with a related sermon, staff wearing robes and collars (not frequent),… Continue Reading
Stan Grant and Greg Sheridan sat down to discuss “How Christians Can Succeed Today,” Sheridan’s new book, in the Art Deco Splendour of the lounge at Mosman’s Hayden Orpheum theatre. The event drew representatives of what Sheridan jokingly called the… Continue Reading
Jesus is “true God from true God,” “begotten not made,” and “of one substance with the Father.” These truths that lie at the heart of our Christian faith were formed into these words 1700 years ago, at Nicaea, now Izmir,… Continue Reading