Danny Hyde has set up a new website dedicated to all things Belgic Confession.  You can find it here.

The church has been in debt to Bob Yarbrough for many years, particularly for his translations of German works by Linneman and Schlatter.  Now Bob has produced a fine commentary on the Johannine epistles for the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament.  I was particularly encouraged by the following statment from the preface: `While academic protocol moves perhaps most commentators to take their primary discussion partners from among current doyens of the discipline, I have (without ignoring our day's intellects and critical industries) tried to draw on a range of thinkers from across temporal and cultural boundaries.'  In a day where, in the last few years, I was at a seminar where a former colleague asked whether anyone in church history had ever exegeted the passages in the Bible about God changing his mind, before the open theists came along, it is refreshing to find out that not all biblical types are uninterested in anything that happens between 100 AD and 1990, hard though it is to believe that anybody understood a single verse of the Bible during that period.