Liam Goligher's Posts

Liam Goligher's Posts

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Liam Goligher
Dec 18, 2010
I'm going to ignore the irreverent reference to my 'blond' period below - though I was sure I had destroyed all those old videos...! On re-vewing them I notice they haven't aged well. On another subject altogether, it's easy to be negative about Christmas if all you focus on is the busy-ness and...

Bishop causes outrage...

Liam Goligher
Nov 3, 2010
So runs today's headline in the London Times following a statement by an evangelical bishop in the Church of England. Bishop Wallace Benn, the Bishop of Lewes, told the Reform conference of conservative Anglicans: "I'm about to use an analogy and I use it quite deliberately and carefully. And it...

The Main Thing is still the Main Thing!

Liam Goligher
Oct 30, 2010
On the eve of another Reformation Sunday we find ourselves still fighting for that principle which Calvin called the "main hinge on which religion turns" and which Luther called the mark of a standing or falling church, namely the doctrine of justification by faith alone in the imputed...

The New (Scientist's) Morality

Liam Goligher
Oct 20, 2010
A friend in London (Steve Clark) has alerted me to this week's New Scientist which is running a feature with a series of articles about morality, interviewing various 'luminaries' about its roots and developments (neuroscientists, philosophers, social anthropologists and the like). The main premise...

Anglo-Catholic Dunkirk

Liam Goligher
Oct 18, 2010
The Pope's recent visit, and the momentum towards appointing women bishops, seems to have nerved the faithful for action as three Bishops serve notice to Canterbury en route to Rome... here ... Ruth Gledhill writes: At least three serving Church of England bishops are to lead an exodus to the Roman...

John Knox at Prayer

Liam Goligher
Oct 15, 2010
What John Knox did for Scotland is incalculable. By his fortitude, his integrity, and his passion for the gospel he forged a nation that loved the Bible, loved liberty, and influenced the world. For centuries after it was with pride that Scotsmen the world over spoke of their native country as 'the...

Up from the PIt

Liam Goligher
Oct 14, 2010
'A Planet inspired...' so ran one of the headlines in a British newspaper today as the world it seems caught up in the joy of families reunited after the long ordeeal of the men traapped in the Chilean mine. 'We were waiting for death, we were consuming ourselves,' said one of the men. Another said...

Celtic Preaching

Liam Goligher
Oct 14, 2010
From what we are able to glean from the sparse sources of the preaching of the Celtic missionaries, a general pattern emerges. They were energetic and selfless evangelists who sought nothing for themselves but to spend and be spent in serving the Saviour. Mungo effectively brought Christianity to...

Missional Musings

Liam Goligher
Oct 13, 2010
Elsewhere in the blogosphere there has been considerable chatter about the issue of what it is to be 'missional' arising out of Kevin DeYoung's excellent seminar at the Desiring God conference. He defined the mission of the church in these terms: The mission of the church is to go into the world...

The Scots Confession

Liam Goligher
Oct 11, 2010
Today I've been working on a lecture I'm due to give in Cambridge next Monday commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Dairmid MacCulloch of Oxford University calls the Scottish Reformation the most successful of all the reformations of the period. It was driven primarily by...