Stephen Prothero, world religion prof at Boston University, not an evangelical Christian, offers an interesting observation on our generation’s reluctance to engage in serious, but respectful disagreement about religion. Having said…
Some readers of ref21 may know that Derek Thomas, the Editorial Director of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, who also serves at the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and…
“In a comparatively sound church life, it is possible to assume that as a rule the children of the covenant will be born again in their youth and come to faith…
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…
I just got an email from my friend Chip Stam, who teaches at Southern Seminary. He says: “December 8 is the day on which Roman Catholics celebrate the Feast of…
George Barna (he of “there’s no future for the local church” fame) has just released his latest survey results pertaining to the much ballyhooed Reformed Awakening, and he calms the…
It was a joy to represent the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and my own congregation, the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi (PCA) at the Inaugural Festivities at Wheaton College.…
J.C. Ryle, meditating on Luke 10:17-24: “We learn, from this passage, how ready Christians are to be puffed up with success. It is written, that the seventy returned from their…
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has received a number of requests for comment upon the Manhattan Declaration, a recent public statement on the sanctity of life, marriage and sexuality, and…
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has received a number of requests for comment upon the Manhattan Declaration, a recent public statement on the sanctity of life, marriage and sexuality, and…
