Author: Lionel Windsor

  • Christmas Letter 2007

    The Windsor family Christmas letter 2007 is available as a PDF document with low resolution photos and high resolution photos.

  • New Heavens and New Earth (Revelation 21:1)

    What does ‘New heavens and New Earth’ mean? The “New Heavens and New Earth” is a way of saying a “whole new creation”. It’s not trying to draw a distinction between Heavens and Earth; rather it’s trying to say “a new everything”. The phrase “Heavens and earth” by itself are the Bible’s way of saying…

  • Overpopulation

    “With regard to ‘filling the earth and subduing it’, do you think that Christians also have a responsibility to the earth and its strained resources? I.e. is it possible for Christians to have ‘too many’ kids? (Is the earth overpopulated and strained; how much should we consider this?)” The answer to this question is ‘yes’…

  • The fulfilment of Isaiah 6

    Mike Cowie is leading a Bible study that’s working through the book of Isaiah. Having just studied Isaiah chapter 6, he had a question. He wrote: We discussed the purpose in Isaiah’s message. Why would God want to harden people to prevent them from repenting? – reminiscent of God’s work in Pharaoh prior to the…

  • Philippians 3:12-4:1

    Here are the answers to some questions from my recent sermon on Philippians 3:12-4:1. Question 1 It kind of seemed like you were implying that there are people here at church who are better than others – “Better Christians”. Who are these growing people? It’s important to remember that all Christians have equal status in…

  • Malachi 2:10-16 and the ‘Offspring of God’

    I think this is one example of where biblical theology is really important in understanding a Bible passage. Did you notice that in the passage, the idea of the ‘covenant’ crops up twice – once in verse 10 (the ‘covenant of our fathers’) and once in verse 14, referring to the marriage covenant between a…

  • Christmas Letter 2006

    Our Christmas letter for 2006 is now available.

  • Do you have to be baptised to be saved?

    Probably the best place to go to talk about the relationship between (water) baptism and salvation is 1 Peter 3:21-22: 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22…

  • The New Perspective on Paul: Summary and Reflections

    The weird and wonderful world of biblical scholarship may seem a thousand miles removed from the day to day life of ordinary Christians. To the outsider, biblical scholarship looks like a strange little enclave where papers get written, learned journals get printed, books get published and theories get advanced and refuted, all with seemingly negligible…

  • Feeling Greek chapters 1-10

    The Feeling Greek course, chapters 1-10 is available for free download. This course is designed as a simple, phonics-based introduction to New Testament Greek. It can be used as a ‘refresher’ for students of Greek who have found themselves struggling with the complexities of the language at an advanced level and need to remind themselves…

  • The Fulfilment of the Covenants: an Acovenantal Perspective on Paul

    This was my thesis for my Moore College B.D. The Fulfilment of the Covenants: an Acovenantal Perspective on Paul. Summary: The New Perspective on Paul and the ancient Qumran sectarians have this in common: they use the term ‘covenant’ as a sociological catch-all term to describe the relationship between God and a specific community. But…

  • Women Preaching to Mixed Adult Congregations: A detailed reading of 1 Timothy 2:8-15 in reply to John Stott’s position

    The issue of women preaching to mixed adult congregations is one that has caused a lot of consternation in ‘evangelical circles’ in recent times. There is a common argument that women should preach to mixed adult congregations that proceeds along the following lines: Different scholars and respected authorities disagree on the interpretation of the relevant…

  • A tribute to Anglican Liturgy

    Liturgy For the Moore College Review, 2003 Words by Dave ‘McCartney’ Hann and Lionel ‘Lennon’ Windsor With help from 3rd year Moore College 2004 Rubrics by Lewis ‘Harrison’ Jones and Lionel ‘Lennon’ Windsor To the tune of ‘Let it Be’ The people sitting, appropriate chords of introduction are played. DRAWING NEAR TO LISTEN When he…

  • Old Testament Studies Revolutionised

    Newsflash: Old Testament Studies Revolutionised. Exciting new evidence supporting a late dating for the Old Testament book of Daniel has arisen in a curiously unexpected way. It appears that an orthodox fragment of an ancient source underlying Daniel has been preserved by oral tradition to this day amongst a group of Western fundamentalists, who even…

  • Is the wisdom literature of the Old Testament an exercise in natural theology?

    Introduction Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes have posed a puzzle for interpreters eager to account for their place in the canon. What, if any, connection there is between the Old Testament Law and Prophets, whose topic is the Israel’s history, and this ‘wisdom literature’, which, at best, seems only to allude to Israel’s history? One popular…

  • Indicative and Imperative in the Letters of Paul

    Lionel Windsor (2004) Introduction It is undeniable that Paul’s letters contain both declarations and commands, theology and ethics, indicatives and imperatives. Yet Paul himself never explicitly lays out the logical connection between these two elements of his thought. Certainly, indicatives generally precede and are connected to imperatives, sometimes broadly (e.g. Eph 1-3 then 4-6; Rom…

  • Desire: reconnected (Song of Songs 7-8)

    A Sermon on Song of Songs 7-8 Lionel Windsor, 18 July 2004 Desire … disconnected We seem to live in a world where sexual desire is everywhere, but means almost nothing. Turn on the TV, and you’ll soon find sexual desire in the ads, in the movies, on the sitcoms. Take a drive, and there…

  • Pictorial Bible Summary

    Here’s a dynamic pictorial summary of the Bible, using concentric circles to “zero in” on Jesus. (Requires Microsoft Power Point)

  • Justification and Sanctification: Biblical Definitions and Modern Misunderstandings

    Lionel Windsor (2004) Introduction The relationship between God and humanity is, of course, of fundamental importance to Biblical revelation. The details of how this relationship is made right, from God’s point of view and from our own (corporately and individually), are also treated at length, both in the Scriptures and in subsequent Christian reflection. Here…

  • Pictorial guide to modern Philosophy

    Here’s a very useful pictorial guide to modern philosophy Thanks to Tim Riley (MS Word format)

  • Should theological students have a day off?

    I like having Saturday off (normally). I suppose you could try keeping the fourth commandment literally, according to the original instruction. But that would involve downing tools at Sunset on Israel’s Friday (about 2 AM Saturday morning EST) and picking them up again 24 hours later (2 AM Sunday morning). Anything else (e.g. just ‘having…

  • Christianity and evolution – the real problem

    The problem in the debate between Christianity and evolution is not really scientific at all but rather philosophical. We need to distinguish between ‘science’, which is a discipline, and ‘scientism’, which is a philosophical stance. Christians too often try to attack some of the results of science, when what we really should be attacking is…

  • The Intellectual

    The Intellectual Lionel Windsor 2002 Careless musings on electrons and Byron are scattered By the late night TV news. “Right to Lifers march on Parliament”. Even now, poor souls staunchly defend their cause, Oblivious to postmodern thinking. You’ve been there, done that; Old-fashioned notions haunt your red youth. As you flick the switch in nonchalant…

  • Paul’s Apostolic Ministry as Presented in the Book of Acts

    Lionel Windsor (2002) ‘In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach’, writes Luke, at the beginning of his second volume (Acts 1:1, emphasis mine). The implication is that Jesus continued to act and to teach after his ascension (So Köstenberger and O’Brien 2001, 128). So Paul,…

  • The New Testament Book of Acts – an overview

    Lionel Windsor, 2001 Contents Purpose Date Importance Themes Quotations Structure Summary of themes Opposition / suffering The Holy Spirit The message Purpose Second part of Luke’s two-volume work Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost” Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit…