On Friday last week, Willie Mackenzie of CFP gave me an advance copy of Douglas F. Kelly’s forthcoming Systematic Theology I: The God Who Is — The Holy Trinity. It looks excellent. Three things are striking. First, Kelly interacts extensively…
In Genesis, Scripture tells us that the first thing God did after He created the universe and everything in it was to observe all He had done and conclude that it was “very good.” The goodness was not something inherent…
Read this excellent essay by Dr. Wayne Grudem. Many of the people I have met who oppose the doctrine of God’s sovereign election do so on the basis of common misunderstandings. Grudem examines and effectively deals with those misunderstandings.
Check out this interview with Ed Young Jr. on CNN. The interviewer seems to have more wisdom on this issue than the tragically hip pastor. Young is the pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX. Although he dodges it, Fellowship…
Further to my entry below, Steve Nichols appears on www.harvest-tv.com talking about his new book on blues music. He appears for about ten minutes or so about 20 minutes into the show. If you want see as well as hear him, this…
While preaching recently on the twelve apostles, I focussed on John’s statement about Thomas: ‘Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came’. John, of course, does not tell us why Thomas was…
The guys over at Christ the Center have been interviewing Steve Nichols concerning his new book Getting the Blues. You may want to stick with the interview until 37.06 when Steve and the gang bring my expertise into the program.…
The Washington Post recently interviewed Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Gilead, and most recently, of Home. Here’s how the interview begins: If you want to understand how different Marilynne Robinson is from other contemporary novelists — how different,…
The Gospel and Culture Project has launched a new website that will be of interest to most if not all readers of Reformation 21. The website is edited by Chris Simmons, who is an expert in film and who attended…
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of the Church of England was in New York on September 11, 2001 not far from the World Trade Center. This article tells of Williams’ experience that fateful day and the days that followed. What is…
