Letters from Great Grandpa
To help prepare a scrapbook for my grandfather’s 90th birthday, my mother was given a small treasure trove of old letters from around the 1940’s. Most of them were written…
Philip Ryken
Slow Return to Faith
The English journalist and essayist A.N. Wilson, who abandoned the Christian faith some twenty years ago, reports that he has found his way back to Christianity. In a recent essay for…
A Prayer for Pastors, Part 8
“From dullness of conscience, from feeble sense of duty, from thoughtless disregard of consequences to others, from a low idea of the obligations of our ministry, and from all half-heartedness…
The Age of Homelessness
“I lived at a time when a huge change in the contents of the human imagination was occurring. In my lifetime Heaven and Hell disappeared, the belief in life after…
The Aberdeen Appeal
I too have joined the list of Carl Trueman’s colleagues who have signed the “Statement to Commissioners at the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.” Further, I believe…
Barnhouse on True Faith
“True faith acts on supernatural facts and gets supernatural results” — Donald Grey Barnhouse.
A Prayer for Pastors, Part 7
“From infirmity of purpose, from want of earnest care and interest, from the sluggishness of indolence, and the slackness of indifference, and from all spiritual deadness of heart; Save…
On Self Love
“Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.” — Thomas Carlyle. For comparison, see 1 Corinthians 13:5; 2 Timothy 3:2;…
Blog 75: 2.11.4 – 2.11.9
Although the unity of the old and new covenants is primary, the differences between the two covenants are also important. The first of these differences, as we have seen, concerns…
Blog 74: 2.10.21 – 2.11.3
Calvin continues proving the doctrine of eternal life from the Old Testament Scriptures by pointing to Ezekiel’s prophecy that dead, dry bones will live and rise again (Ezek. 37). No…