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by Stephen Kneale | “Sovereignty characterizes the whole Being of God. He is sovereign in all His attributes. He is sovereign in the exercise of His power. His power is exercised as He wills, when He wills, where He wills. This fact is evidenced on every page of Scripture. For a long season that power appears to be dormant...
We all know that the results in ministry aren’t up to us. You do know that, right? My working theory is that enough of us didn’t know this, or acted as though we didn’t know this,…
by Stephen Kneale | We are not called to produce a certain yield, we are called to be faithful. The results, in the end, are his alone. And we can be happy with that because it frees us from the tyranny of thinking they rest upon us. We all know that the results in ministry aren’t up to us. You do know that, right? My working theory is that enough of us didn’t know this, or acted as though we didn’t know this, that the Lord brought covid to us so that he could show us in no uncertain terms how little he needs us...
by Stephen Kneale | A common cry of anguish in churches is about keeping children and youth in the church. Why don’t they want to stay? Why have they drifted off? I have written before about the number one reason young people don’t stick around...
Brephos, Keswick, Abortion, Social justice and the Bible
This is part two of my look at Brephos’ response to my friends on the Building Jerusalem podcast. In fact, I’m going to limit my response here to one segment of the podcast. The full episode is over 1 hour long, despite saying that they won’t use this podcast to defend themselves again in relation to the Keswick Convention they in fact spend the first twenty minutes doing just that. The next…
Brephos Abortion,, Keswick, Building Jerusalem, Social Justice and good faith conversations
Well, this little saga seems to be rumbling on. My friends Steve Kneale and Stephen Watkinson run a podcast called Building Jerusalem. They recently tackled questions around the Brephos/Keswick Convention dispute. Brephos, Keswick & Christian Ministries Brephos have now responded. First, they posted a short podcast encouraging their supporters to go and listen to the podcast. However, they…
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Macauley was adamant that the progress of modern civilisation, of which manufacturing and industry were such crucial components, had brought Britain and its people many more advantages than drawbacks. Concluding the article with a virtuoso display of self-confidence, Macauley suggested that if he were to prophesy (in 1829) that by 1930, 'a population of fifty million, better fed, clad, and lodged than the English of our time, will cover these islands - that Sussex and Huntingdonshire will be wealthier than the wealthiest parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire now are, - that machines, constructed on principles yet undiscovered, will be in every house, - that there will be no highways but railroads, not travelling but by steam ... many people would think us insane'. But for Macauley such advances in civilisation were all possible given the dynamic potential of progress when driven by the 'prudence and energy' of the English people. And, to his great credit, his predictions were not far wrong.
From Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
My current obsession with reading about the Industrial Revolution : part 7
The result of these sanitary and housing conditions was a total collapse in life chances. Sickly infants living together in cramped, damp cellars made easy pickings. Of the 350,000 deaths in England and Wales in 1842, nearly 80,000 occurred in children under one year old, and nearly 140,000 in children under five years. Those lucky enough to make it beyond the crucial ten-year barrier could not look forward to a much longer existence. In 1841, life expectancy at birth was 26.6 years in Manchester, 28.1 years in Liverpool and 27 years in Glasgow. The extraordinary aspect of industrialisation is that it actually set back improvements in standards of living. For a culture so bewitched by the notion of progress, the social forces and industrial mechanisms which were regarded as the handmaidens of progress brought in fact a massive reversal of previous improvements in life expectancy. Shockingly, the life chances of a slum dweller in early Victorian Glasgow or Liverpool were in fact the lowest since the Black Death.
From Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
my current obsession with reading about the Industrial Revolution : part 6
