Progressive Revelation

The Star and the King

25th December 2025

The account of the wise men in Matthew 2 reveals that God reaches into human understanding to reveal His Son. Their journey, prompted by a star and perhaps strengthened by Scripture, illustrates both natural and special revelation working together. The story is not a seasonal legend but evidence of God's purposeful action in history, calling all people to acknowledge Jesus as King and Saviour. Christmas invites us to move beyond tradition and culture towards personal faith in the One who came to bring forgiveness and everlasting life.

Sons of God and the Daughters of Men

28th September 2025

God's revelation unfolds through Scripture, from the early mysteries of Genesis to the clarity of the New Testament. The term "sons of God" in Genesis 6 describes a troubling event about both angelic rebellion and human corruption, provoking God's grief and judgement through the Flood. Yet in Noah's finding grace, we glimpse the mercy of God illustrating His ultimate act of salvation in Jesus Christ, the true and eternal "Son of God". Through His death and resurrection, the face of God turns from wrath to welcome, forgiveness, belonging, and a new life.

The Journey to the New Covenant

24th August 2025

God takes ordinary people and fills them with His Spirit to do extraordinary things. The journey from the Old Testament to the New is not a rejection of what came before, but a movement into the fullness of God's revelation in Jesus Christ. It is through repentance and faith in Christ's once‑for‑all atonement that believers receive not only forgiveness but also the indwelling Holy Spirit, who transforms common lives for eternal purposes.

A New Commandment

27th July 2025

The Bible unfolds through progressive revelation, meaning our understanding of God grows from the Old Testament into the New. Jesus gives a New Commandment to love one another, which is founded upon His grace, not just on obedience of keeping the old laws. The central offer of this New Covenant is salvation through faith alone and the subsequent gift of the Holy Spirit, which is given freely to all who believe, making no distinction between Jew or Gentile. This free gift of grace is what unites all Christians, regardless of their differing backgrounds.

More Than Obedience

13th July 2025

Praying "Your kingdom come" is a vital spiritual act, asking Heaven to intervene on earth. This prayer is nestled in a passage teaching that our Christian duties should be motivated by faith and performed for an audience of one: our Father who sees in secret. What pleases God most is not mere obedience, but the faith that inspires it. Understanding His kingdom requires grasping the principle of progressive revelation, where God unfolds His plan over time, just as He is doing with end-times events. Therefore, we should pray earnestly for His Kingdom to be demonstrated through revival, a sovereign work of the Holy Spirit that expands the church far more than human organisation ever could.

The Eternal Word

22nd June 2025

In the beginning, before all time, the Word existed face to face with God the Father. This Word, the eternal Son, is Himself God, and through Him, all things were created. He is the radiance of God's glory and the exact imprint of His nature, upholding the universe by His power. In these last days, God has spoken definitively through His Son, Jesus, who offers us a share in His inheritance and salvation to all who come to Him.

What Jesus and the Apostles Really Taught about Hell

20th October 2024

The Biblical doctrine of Hell develops from the Old Testament's limited understanding of Sheol to the New Testament's clear teaching of eternal punishment. While many attempt to soften this teaching to cater for modern sensibilities, the strongest warnings about Hell's eternal nature come from Scripture's most loving figures - Jesus, Paul, and John. Their love for humanity compelled them to speak truthfully about Hell's reality rather than offer comfortable compromises. The Holy Spirit continues to awaken people to this reality, not to terrorise them, but to lead them to salvation in Christ.

21st January 2024

"I don't know whether you're aware of the fact that Jesus sees you as not necessarily able to take what he really wants to tell you. Are you aware of the fact that the Bible, in all of its teaching, examples what the theologians now call progressive revelation. And progressive revelation is nothing to do with contradicting some earlier truth and saying it was wrong. It's not correcting things. But it is the fact that God always has the problem with humanity that we humanity can't take in all the things he'd want to tell us."