WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?
KNOWING JESUS: THE I AM STATEMENTS
For the next few days, visit for a daily (Monday to Friday) devotion focused on the I AM statements in the Gospel of John.
Blog
Bible study porn: The role of community in Bible study
When Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel was released in 2013, one reviewer critiqued its closing act as “violence porn.” Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman...
Helpful Love: Sharing and Showing Christ’s Love to Saints and Strangers
Paul’s concern in Romans 12:10–13 centres on authentic love within the body of Christ—love that is genuine and without hypocrisy. Christian love...
Hopeful Love: The Key to Christian Consistency
The term “fair-weather friend” describes a person who is supportive and friendly in good times but who disappears in difficulties. Tragically, many...
Reviews
Review: Walking through the Fire
How much is too much? How much suffering can a person take before it overwhelms? This questions stares the reader of Walking through the Fire in the...
Review: End the Stalemate
It is no exaggeration to say that we live in an age of outrage and a culture of cancel, which does not facilitate meaningful, charitable discussion....
Review: Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire
Anyone who has engaged with Preston Sprinkle for any meaningful amount of time will be familiar with his language of exile. He frequently speaks of...
Hymn stories
Hymnody: “‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”
Louisa Stead was born in Dover, England around 1850. From a young age, she felt compelled to mission work. She desperately wanted to serve as a...
Hymnody: “Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken”
Henry Francis Lyte was born into severe poverty in Scotland on 1 June 1793. While still very young, he became an orphan. Despite, these challenges,...
Hymnody: “More Love to Thee”
Elizabeth Prentiss was a nineteenth-century American author, perhaps best known for the most famed of her novels, Stepping Heavenward. A pastor’s...
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CHURCH AFFILIATION
I am a member Brackenhurst Baptist Church (BBC) in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Founded in 1972, BBC exists to glorify God by making disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ in all nations, and seeks to meet people’s spiritual needs through the preaching and teaching of God’s word.
Independent of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa, BBC is a member of Sola 5, an association of God-centred evangelical churches in Southern Africa, and a part of the international Pillar Network of churches.
About Me
I am a Christian, husband, father, church member, and elder from Johannesburg, SOuth Africa.
As a Christian, I adhere to the classic creeds of historic Christianity: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. As a Protestant, I hold to the five solas of the Reformation. As a Calvinist, I affirm the doctrines of grace. As a Baptist, I adhere largely, though not minutely, to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. As an evangelical, I affirm the National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith.
