Verses for the Church in America
A passage from this morning’s devotions struck home as a verse for the American church, which today seems so prone to be fearful of various politicians and political movements, and of…
Philip Ryken
A Prayer for Pastors, Part 10
“From self-conceit and vanity and boasting, from delight in supposed success and superiority, raise us to the modesty and humility of true sense and taste and reality; and from all…
A Prayer for Pastors, Part 9
After a brief hiatus — okay, it has been eight months — I return to Dr. Ridding’s litany for pastors: “From weariness in continuing struggles, from despondency in failure and…
Christmas Carols
As always, I was deeply blessed by special services of worship celebrating the birth (and life and death and resurrection) of Jesus the Christ. Of particular joy and comfort this year…
Blog 236: 4.19.14 – 4.19.19
Calvin continues his critique of Catholicism by applying a biblical definition of “sacrament” to the Roman rite of penance. He begins with a clear and careful distinction between public repentance,…
Marital Conflict
The latest issue of New York has a generally positive article on Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Tim Keller and his ministry to New York City. The article includes this gem of…
Dever on Romans
Registration is now open for the 2010 Workshop on Biblical Exposition at Tenth Presbyterian Church, sponsored by the Charles Simeon Trust and by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. As usual,…
Emotivist Ethics
Christian Smith recently published “Souls in Transition,” a study of the moral and spiritual lives of America’s 18- to 24-olds, based on extended face-to-face interviews. The moral outlook of many…
The Marrow of Modern Divinity
The following is an introduction of a reprinting of The Marrow of Modern Divinity. The Marrow of Modern DivinityChristian Focus PublicationsOctober 2009 Thomas Boston is one of my favorite authors.…
Blog 182: 4.6.10 – 4.6.16
To demonstrate the unique headship of Jesus Christ over the church–a headship he does not share with the pope or any other earthly figure–Calvin makes an argument from biblical silence.…