Washington Post and Embryo Adoption
The story of Gabe and Callie Fluhrer’s embryo adoption is featured in The Washington Post. Gabe is an OPC pastor and the man at Alliance who handles all the complaints.
Month September 2012
Life Everlasting
Life Everlasting, Dan C. Barber and Robert A. Peterson (P&R, 2012) At my last book club, my cousin reviewed the book Heaven is for Real. It had already been negatively reviewed several months ago in our group, but she wanted…
Being Born Again
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind and a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings and new dislikings, new fears, new joys,…
Well, what do you know…
In Col 3:10, the apostle Paul describes one of the most stunning aspects of the Spirit’s re-creative work in uniting us by faith to the risen Christ. In that verse, we read that the natural man is, by that Spirit,…
Once you’ve hit gold……
This is one for high achievers who’ve won gold and then find there’s nowhere to go. I remember talking with Carl after T4G and him recounting the same…….. CRT – ” Levy, I’ve been on stage with the big four, done…
Typical Objections to the Ten Commandments and Christians
My good friend Rich Barcellos has posted this excellent article on the Reformed Baptist Fellowship blog; check it out if you are interested:
The clown in the pulpit
The Scottish preacher and theologian Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon on “The necessity of the Spirit to give effect to the preaching of gospel,” declared: How little must the presence of God be felt in that place, where the high…
Is this guy the new General Sedgwick?
There are tired sermon illustrations which we’ve all heard before and then there’s General Sedgewick! 3 times in 2011 we had guest preachers who began their sermons with his famous last words. The story goes if you don’t know it but…
A conference for warm hearted Presbies in London
If you’re around in London on 20 October and fancy a bit of Presbyterianism this is the conference for you. The EPCEW are celebrating 25 years and are hosting this in the centre of town, the speakers are Bob Letham…
Something to Hold Fast
“Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful” (Heb. 10:23). We are plodding through Hebrews in the women’s Bible study at my church (yes, still!). I started in February, and…