Serious and Sensitive Preaching About Hell
What is the preacher to do with hell and eternal punishment? In our day and age these truths strike some as comical and others as cruel. To some, hell is…
Ligon Duncan
Reigning Omnipotent in Every Place
When–in the Institutes of the Christian Religion (1.15.1)–John Calvin turned his attention to the creation of mankind, he did so with a view to further elaborate his assertion that we cannot have…
The Trinity Psalter Hymnal (2018)
Congratulations to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and United Reformed Churches (URCNA) and Great Commission Publications on the new Trinity Psalter Hymnal (2018). I have only had my copy for a couple of weeks…
Highlights from Walter Marshall’s “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification” (4)
Walter Marshall’s Directions 4-9 from Gospel Mystery of Sanctification emphasize that in the pursuit of holiness the order is Gospel then godliness, not godliness then Gospel. Direction Four The means…
Highlights from Walter Marshall’s “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification” (3)
So far, as we have pointed to some highlights of Walter Marshall’s justly lauded book, “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification,” we have learned the following from him about growth in grace…
Highlights from Walter Marshall’s “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification” (2)
In our first highlight from Walter Marshall’s “Gospel Mystery” we saw no antipathy to the ideas of the believer’s duty or to the believer’s aspiration to holiness or to the…
Highlights from Walter Marshall’s “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification”
John Murray famously commended Walter Marshall’s “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification” as the best book ever written on the subject. Recently, however, some sound divines have become suspcious of the work,…
Charles Simeon on Discriminatory Preaching
“It is of great importance in preaching the Gospel, to discriminate between the different characters to whom we deliver our message, and to separate the precious from the vile. If…
The Searcher of Hearts
Charles Simeon says: “In forming our estimate of men, we are apt to look at their actions only; and even our own characters, also, we try by that standard. But it…
Terry Johnson’s Calendar(s) of Hymns and Psalms for Public Worship
Terry Johnson, the Senior Minister of the historic Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia, has for many years produced an annual calendar of hymns and psalms for the use of…