Pastor, Preach Repentance
True repentance grows in the gospel soil of God’s sovereign grace. Its roots comprise both biblically-informed grief over sin and biblically-informed apprehension of God’s mercy in Christ. Its trunk and…
Jeremy Walker
Why Repentance Should Be Lifelong and Particular
Saving repentance grows in gospel soil. It is not simply a natural terror stirred up by the law or a fear of retributive justice; it is the gift of God,…
Repentance for Real
Every sinner effectually called by God receives the grant of repentance. God has mercifully provided a way for restoration His covenant of grace—a restoration that can overcome even our most…
How Repentance Relates to Calling and Covenant
Note: This post has been adapted from A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, edited by Rob Ventura, slated for release by Mentor Books in…
Repentance, Life, and a Baptist Confession
Note: This post has been adapted from A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, edited by Rob Ventura, slated for release by Mentor in November…
Mind the Gap(s)
Note: This article was originally published on reformation21 in May 2011. Error and heresy are not always immediately obvious. Some problems are indeed glaring, and ought to require only a…
Making Much of Men
Whether we are prepared to admit it or not, most of us have ‘celebrity pastors,’ or at least people to whom we offer a measure of unqualified and uncritical appreciation…
Borrowed Conviction
It has happened a few times before. It happened again recently. Someone without a good church gets in touch, referred by a mutual friend. Or someone drops an email asking…
Preparing Sermons with John Owen
After a cracking day at the Evangelical Library in London on “Reading John Owen” (opening, it has to be said, with Nigel Graham giving what may be one of the…
Masculinity and the Priority of Love
If you were asked to identify the primary quality which defines a true man of God in his specific relation to a true woman of God – distinctively within the…