Month August 2008
Piper on Machen, Doctrine, and Preaching
Amidst all the hoo-hah out there about whether my pal Trueman is really a chinless theology-lite liberal, why anyone would want to study Lederhosen, whether Schleiermacher would really have spoken cockney dialect with a German accent, and other matters of…
Free Confessions
One of my students brought to my attention the fact that ChristianAudio.com are offering Augustine’s Confessions as their free download of the month for August. You’ll find the link here.As a former student once said in chapel, `Dr Trueman told…
Free Confessions
One of my students brought to my attention the fact that ChristianAudio.com are offering Augustine’s Confessions as their free download of the month for August. You’ll find the link here.As a former student once said in chapel, `Dr Trueman told…
Robert Webber, Presuppositionalist
I’ve been reading the late Robert Webber’s last book, Who Gets To Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (IVP, 2008), and came across these lines: “When we argue [in an evidentialist] way, we…
Discipling Christian Children
From my pastor’s letter this week: One of the most important things we will do at Second Presbyterian Church is disciple our children to a living, personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We live in a society that assumes…
When “narrative” becomes an excuse
Would-be theologians who use appeals to “narrative” (and its function in the theology of the writers of Scripture) as a means of undermining the enduring normative authority of Scripture will find themselves under the searching judgment of the normative authority of…
Reformed Man Today reports discovery of early Machen manuscript
The August edition of Reformed Man Today leads with a shocking story: The Christian world has today been thrown into turmoil by the discovery of what is probably the earliest MS of J Gresham Machen’s seminal tome, Christianity and Liberalism. …
Review: Reformed Worship
Reformed Worship: Worship That Is According to ScriptureBy Terry Johnson72 p.Reformed Academic Press (2002)Reviewed by Rob Hill It has recently been noted in Christianity Today, among other places, that Reformed theology is enjoying a resurgence among the younger generation of…
Out of Africa
Just back from a week in the Pocono Mountains, speaking at Pinebrook Bible Conference. While there, I met up with a retired missionary from Scott Theological College in Kenya. And after some wonderful conversations with him, I decided to return…