PCRT 4
Ligon Duncan: “The Gospel Preaching of the Cross” Ligon Duncan is one of my favorite preachers and it is not just because of his amazing voice. Dr. Duncan has a peculiar gift of combining exegetical precision, doctrinal depth, and pastoral…
Month April 2012
PCRT 3 – “The Gospel Power of God”
Sinclair Ferguson… Romans 1:16-17: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of…
PCRT 2 – The Gospel Remedy For Bad News
Harry Reeder, the pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama was the speaker for the morning session. I was immediately struck by his deep southern accent. Quite a contrast to Dr. Ferguson’s Scottish brogue. Romans 3:9-26: What then?…
In my imagination I like to think of Jesus as ……………..
The Guardian is a national newspaper and in Friday’s edition you have this article ‘Was Jesus Gay?’ It is an awful piece and you wonder whether they would have had the guts to publish something similar on Mohammed. What strikes…
PCRT 1 – The Gospel of Great Joy
For this boy from Houston, Texas, raised in a contemporary Southern Baptist mega-church, it is a moving experience to enter the beautiful old sanctuary of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia to the sound of trumpet, horn, and organ reverberating through…
PCRT
I have been asked by the Alliance Of Confessing Evangelicals to live blog the Philadelphia Conference On Reformed Theology. The conference begins this evening with a message from Sinclair Ferguson. More to come…
No life in the Moon but is that necessarily a problem?
Moments after finishing my piece on the importance of presence for Ref21, a reader emailed me a link to a quite bizarre story: Olympic organisers in London had apparently been hoping to have Keith Moon play at this year’s opening…
No life in the Moon but is that necessarily a problem?
Moments after finishing my piece on the importance of presence for Ref21, a reader emailed me a link to a quite bizarre story: Olympic organisers in London had apparently been hoping to have Keith Moon play at this year’s opening…
The Banner of Truth Conference
I returned home yesterday from the Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference held in Leicester in the UK. This was the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, though not quite the fiftieth conference (they missed maybe one or two for various reasons…
Multisite, the Poker Tell and the Importance of Presence
Any classic rock fan knows that there is nothing quite like hearing a live band. A few years ago, I went to hear The Who (or at least Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, the extant members). I remember listening on…