What are creeds?
Timely words from J. Gresham Machen, “The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance,” in God Transcendent, ed. Ned B. Stonehouse (Eerdmans, 1949), 145: That is often forgotten by those who today undertake…
Sean Lucas
Back from Harvard, no. 2
One of the key teachings in the course (on the art and practice of leadership development) that I took at Harvard this past week was the importance of “owning your piece…
Back from Harvard, no. 1
I’m back home after a week at Harvard University where I attended a course on “the art and practice of leadership development.” The course was led by Marty Linsky and…
Preaching the Gospel to all sorts of voices
Many readers of this blog are familiar with Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ instruction to preaching the Gospel to ourselves. In his book, Spiritual Depression (pp. 20-21), Lloyd-Jones said: Have you realized that…
How will they hear without someone preaching?
Today, in my morning worship, the section of scripture was Romans 9-11 and smack dab in the middle of it, of course, were these words from Romans 10:14. There were…
R. Laird Harris (1911-2008)
The Covenant Seminary family was saddened by the news this past Friday that founding professor of Old Testament, R. Laird Harris, had gone to be with Jesus. Dr. Harris, who…
The shed blood of Christ: the foundation of Christianity
Another timely word from Horatius Bonar, in “Christ is All”: The Piety of Horatius Bonar, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker (2007), 79-80: What is Christianity? Not…
Doing History in the Prophetic Mode
A few weeks ago, I got Carl Trueman’s new collection of essays, Minority Report, which is (as with most of what he does) engaging, insightful, and frequently brilliant. One note…
On trading fidelity to truth for present relevancy
A thought-provoking and “relevant” quotation from Horatius Bonar, quoted in “Christ is All”: The Piety of Horatius Bonar, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker (2007), 31-3: Some…