During Sunday evening (!) worship a few weeks ago, I was refreshed to hear again a hymn by Derek Thomas and Paul Jones. The hymn is entitled “Our Father Bless’d, To Us Bestows.” I believe we may have posted it before,…
Visiting RTS Jackson today, it was a thrill to be in the home state of the late great Robert Johnson (look him up on Wikipedia, Del); and to be introduced by Dr Thomas to RTS as a `gangly nerd,’ Del continuing…
Visiting RTS Jackson today, it was a thrill to be in the home state of the late great Robert Johnson (look him up on Wikipedia, Del); and to be introduced by Dr Thomas to RTS as a `gangly nerd,’ Del continuing…
Visiting RTS Jackson today, it was a thrill to be in the home state of the late great Robert Johnson (look him up on Wikipedia, Del); and to be introduced by Dr Thomas to RTS as a `gangly nerd,’ Del continuing…
I don’t know if the discipline of apologetics is overrated or not, but one aspect of apologetics seems to be underappreciated. While apologetics may be useful in the exercise of evangelism (helping give people reasons to believe, which of course…
Readers who lament the undeserved popularity of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion will be heartened by the sharp criticism the book receives in the January 11 issue of The New York Review of Books. While generally unsympathetic to biblical…
Previous posts have mourned the passing of Al Groves, who taught Old Testament at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. I was blessed by a letter Al wrote to his friends, to be shared at the time of his funeral. The letter…
Crossway has just published a new book, edited by Rick Phillips: Only One Way?: Reaffirming the Exclusive Truth Claims of Christianity. Contributors are Richard D. Phillips, David F. Wells, Peter R. Jones, Philip Graham Ryken, J. Ligon Duncan, and D.…
Lisa (full disclosure: a woman to whom I have been married for 19 years) received the following email this week from a distant friend: “Tell your husband that he is on my iPOD between the Doobie Brothers and Duran Duran…
In personal response to Derek’s question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection. But I hope it’s not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: “Many a…
