John Seel brought my attention to this article in today’s USA Today. Here are a couple of quotes. “You can create a church that’s big, but is still not transforming people. Without transformation, the Christian message is not advanced.” —…
RecapPreviously we examined the place of the atonement in the covenant theology that unfolds for us in the pages of the Scriptures. We discovered that there were three theological covenants [1]: the covenant of redemption that occurred between the three…
RecapPreviously we examined the place of the atonement in the covenant theology that unfolds for us in the pages of the Scriptures. We discovered that there were three theological covenants [1]: the covenant of redemption that occurred between the three…
Scott Clark has posted a link to Ligon’s three lectures on covenant theology at Westminster Seminary California (the den Dulk lectures). Nicholas Batzig has been posting links to online sermons by Eric Alexander (here and here). J. I. Packer is…
As some readers may know, the role of women in the mercy ministry of the church is a live issue in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). At Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church, where I serve as senior minister, our practice…
Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters, was also home, some seventy years earlier, to one of the great men of the eighteenth century evangelical revival in Britain: William Grimshaw of Haworth. J.C. Ryle regarded him, along with John Wesley and…
One of my favorite magazines is Tabletalk which is published by Ligonier Ministries. You can read the latest issue online HERE. Each issue is filled with great articles and a month’s worth of daily Bible readings and commentary. I highly…
I read two very helpful articles today that I thought I would pass along to you.The first is from Charles Colson who invites us to be somewhat introspective about the choices we would make if faced with similar circumstances as…
Young, Restless, and Reformed: A Journalists Journey with New CalvinistsBy Collin Hansen160 p.Crossway (March 2008)Reviewed by Martin Downes Collin Hansen’s book is obviously intended to be an impressionistic account of the younger generation of Calvinists within evangelicalism in the United…
For my first post since June (so long I could hardly remember how to find the window for posting), I share a couple of apt turns of phrase from my friend and colleague Paul Tripp, who is just finishing a…
