Table Manners
This week’s Back to Basics is on the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is one of the most basic activities of the church. More ink hit more pages in the Reformation on this topic than on any other, including justification…
Month June 2012
Silent in Suffering
It is not easy to suffer. No affliction is pleasant. But there is something especially difficult about suffering at the hands or by the words of others. Our first inclination is to defend ourselves. And, certainly, there is a place…
Pro-Life Ethics
Thanks to Justin Taylor for posting these excellent lectures on Pro-Life ethics from Scott Klusendorf: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDooyEvaRI&w=460&h=259] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt7GAhbxfHY&w=460&h=259] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qot0zsqqoJ8&w=460&h=259] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9jSTvdipk&w=460&h=259] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjZmkNqLvNA&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTuB1FFSdog&w=460&h=259] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlvq5XJTfxk&w=460&h=259]
Paul Levy is from Venus
Just popping out of the recording studio, where I have been working on my latest album, to point out (a) that the only thing that many people fear more than Paul Levy standing up to preach having forgotten his trousers…
Women’s conferences are from Mars
There are a number of things I fear in ministry which will never take place. One is the usual preachers dream of standing up the front preaching when you realise you haven’t got any trousers on. The other is Jeremy Walker…
Givens Strickler is wrong
For those of us adults battling to learn the Shorter Catechism there is good news. Givens Strickler writing in 1897 was wrong, and he’s wrong because of Bruce Benedict ‘Unless they are learned in childhood and youth, the…
What Has Chesterton to do with the TGC Women’s Conference?
What do you read on an airplane ride? My trip to Orlando was only 2 hours, and I was not in the mood to start a new book before flooding my brain with the messages given at the TGC women’s…
What’s in a name?
Anthony Bradley has asked a thought-provoking question: why is ‘Reformed’ more often associated with Baptists than Presbyterians in popular parlance in the current climate? A number of thoughts come to mind. ‘Reformed’ as a term has expanded its meaning over…
What’s in a name?
Anthony Bradley has asked a thought-provoking question: why is ‘Reformed’ more often associated with Baptists than Presbyterians in popular parlance in the current climate? A number of thoughts come to mind. ‘Reformed’ as a term has expanded its meaning over…
Covenantal Worship and Christ’s Authority
In the various worship wars that continue to rage, there is one element (no pun intended) that is more dangerous than any other. I am not referring to the guitar vs. organ or the suit vs. casual debates. Nor I…