Derek Thomas

On this day in 1967 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) adopted (what we now call) the 1967 Confession, a document largely influenced by the…

    Joel Beeke has just published a new book, Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption. You can also watch a video of Joel talking about the book, here…

Mark Johnston, whose sermons on the Apostles’ Creed we are featuring just now was on Premier Radio yesterday on the topic of cessationism, here. The program can be heard as…

My good friend, Joe Holland, pointed out to me (in a “down” moment at Presbytery yesterday) a fascinating piece in Thomas Boston’s Memoirs (Vol. XII of The Complete Works of…

If you are looking for adult Sunday School material, written from a “means of grace”, confessional point of view, I am enthusiastically suggesting that you take a look at the…

On my return from the PCRT conference in Grand Rapids yesterday, I found myself reading Steve Nichols’s new book, Jesus: Made in America (IVP Academic). I confess I skipped the…

Welcome Iain! Glad you were able to sign in. T4G is over and perhaps we’ll now be able to “resume normal service” again. I feel the “luv” already in the…

Everyone, and I mean everyone (except me and Trueman) are swaning it at T4G. Some of us have to work. But Steve Nichols has yet to sign in to this…

Krister Stendahl, former dean of the Harvard Divinity School, died yesterday at 86. He is best known in some circles as the author of the lecture, “The Apostle Paul and…

Iain D. Campbell, one of our new bloggers (who has yet to be able to sign in!  be patient with us), has posted a review of Andrew McGwan’s book referred…