by Tony Payne | Aug 9, 2017 | Featured, Featured podcast episode, Listen, Podcast
In this episode of the CCL podcast, we’re doing things a bit differently: we normally start with an issue of Christian living and ask what the Bible says about it. But this time, we’re starting with a book of the Bible, and asking how it drives and shapes and changes...
by Tony Payne | Jul 3, 2017 | Essays
This article is based on a talk given at the CCL evening, “How to find your best self”. Where do I meet my best self? Tony Payne This essay takes up where David Hohne’s piece on Dietrich Bonhoeffer left off. David outlined Bonhoeffer’s view that when Jesus Christ...
by Tony Payne | Jun 28, 2017 | Essays, Listen, Podcast
There are two Bible verses that capture the tension this episode explores: on the one hand, there is Ecclesiastes 2:24: “There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God...
by Tony Payne | Jun 1, 2017 | Listen, Podcast
Spurgeon famously said that defending the Bible was as necessary as defending a lion. But if the Bible is where the powerful Lion of Judah speaks to us, challenges us, comforts us, changes us, why do we so often find it difficult to slow down and actually listen—even...
by Tony Payne | May 2, 2017 | Listen, Podcast
What dignity, value or significance does our daily work have? Does it really matter to God? Or are gospel preaching and Christian ministry the only things that really matter in the end? This much-discussed question (at least recently) is the subject of Episode 3....
