Future Perfect // Present Tense

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BARRY COOPER

Should We Baptise Babies?

I was “baptised” as a baby, and some of my very best friends practise it. But is it Scriptural? — read more

Aug 17, 2011
Care for Your Introvert

Thought this was a fascinating article. Although he overstates his case a little (introverts “more intelligent” than extroverts?), the first two paragraphs suggest the writer has been carefully watching me for some time. — read more

Aug 11, 2011
How Self-Pity Keeps You From God

Martin Luther once preached a sermon on the phrase “I called upon the Lord”, taken from Psalm 118:5. Here’s what he said to his congregation: — read more

Aug 3, 2011
Uncle John

This afternoon at 3.15pm (UK time), John Stott died in his retirement home at St. Barnabas College. — read more

Jul 27, 2011
Say What You Mean

In case you hadn’t noticed, It has somehow become uncool To sound like you know what you’re talking about? — read more

Jul 21, 2011
Not Even Science

“Long before I believed [Christianity] to be true, I had already decided that the popular scientific picture at any rate was false. — read more

Jul 14, 2011
Why Christ May Not Be Not Enough For You

I’ve been reading Edward T. Welch’s When People Are Big And God Is Small. In it, he says this: We know that we are created to live in relationship with other people, and in these relationships we are to love, encourage, and comfort each other, but is the purpose of these relationships to bolster our self-esteem? — read more

Jul 7, 2011
It’s Got To Be…

One of the tensions I’ve long battled with is the outer demand to get things done versus the inner desire to get things right. Sometimes the latter has been so strong in me that I’ve ended up doing absolutely nothing. — read more

Jun 9, 2011
Why We Love Men In Capes

I’ll be honest, I was lobbying pretty hard for “Why Everyone Loves A Man In Tights”. — read more

Jun 2, 2011
What’s Worse: Being Tortured or Torturing?

While watching this video about the persecution of Christians in Ceausescu’s Romania, remember that this is more than a historic horror. — read more

May 19, 2011