Last week Karen and I had the opportunity to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. The first NPB was held during the Eisenhower administration and since that time each prayer breakfast has been attended by the sitting president.…
Very helpful discussion from “The White Horse Inn” radio program (). The topic that the guys are discussing ought to be a great concern to Christians. What is passed off as “gospel” in many of our churches and popular Christian…
When I attended Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City it was during its days as a “moderate” theological institution. In fact, it was liberal. Those days have changed thankfully. Indeed the year after I graduated (1995) a new president…
Janice Marsh and her friends in a women’s Bible study at Redeemer PCA in Hurricane, West Virginia have written to tell me how much they learned about the Lord’s Prayer last fall (full disclosure: they were using my book When…
Here is an article from “The Telegraph” () concerning controversial statements by Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury (the leader of the Church of England). Has Williams truly lost his mind? Does he honestly believe that any country can “accomodate”…
Here are two very thought-provoking posts on music in the church from “Church Matters” () & (). I strongly encourage you to read these posts. I believe our thoughts about music in the church are far too shallow and, frankly,…
When you get a chance, check out these excellent lectures by Craig Blomberg on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dr.+Craig+Blomberg&search_type=). Dr. Blomberg is one of our most helpful New Testament scholars.
I’m just beginning to read the new English translation of Calvin’s sermons on the first seven chapters of Acts translated by Rob Roy McGregor (and published recently by the Banner of Truth). These sermons have been available to us in…
Yesterday I received a rush copy of Tim Keller’s new book for skeptics, which the Penguin Group in New York is releasing this week. The book is called The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. It is…
Justin T brought this article to my attention (funny how I missed it — Fox News being, after the Comedy Channel, my favourite source of credible news stories): I believe that a similar proportion of Ref21 readers think Derek…
