Horton on Grace (1)
Michael Horton has written an excellent article in the July/August edition of “Modern Reformation” magazine (). The title of the article is “Grace: How Strange the Sound.” As I read it I was reminded once again how easy it is…
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The Pope is Catholic After All
Martin Downes, the great Welsh ecumenist, brought this article in The Times to my attention. As Tipton and Oliphint exclude Trueman from the congregation of the faithful, so the Pope now excludes everyone outside his own communion: Looks like…
A good day for conspiracy theories…….
I see that K Scott Oliphint and Lane G Tipton have published a new book, Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed APologetics (P and R). It seems that every member of Westminster’s Theological Field was invited to contribute, with…
Paul Helm and N. T. Wright
Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright’s ordo salutis on his blog. His conclusion? “With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events and states, we are able to see that Wright’s view…
Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Medicine
This reviewer writes as a practicing Christian physician and not as a theologian, philosopher, or formal educator. This perspective allows me extremely practical insight into the views and positions proposed by the two authors as they seek to apply the…
What Revival Looks Like
George Whitefield knew a thing or two about revival although, I suppose, no man is an expert. Under his preaching untold numbers of men and women were moved to repentance and faith by the power of the Holy Spirit. His…
The Rest of Faith
Rick Phillips made the mistake of asking me to give the charge at his installation as the twelfth senior minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. I chose the (admittedly unusual and presumably unprecedented) text of Hebrews 4:9-11…
Ferguson on Evangelizing Postmoderns
“You don’t have to be big. You don’t have to be flash. You just have to be the church.”
Ferguson on the Wrath of God
It was a privilege to attend Rick Phillips’s installation service last night at the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville (South Carolina). Sinclair Ferguson preached from 1 Thessalonians 1 on “Becoming a Model Church” and was in his usual good form. In…
Vlad the Taxi Driver on Orthodoxy
I have remained silent for too long. Trueman’s reactionary commendation of Bob Letham on Orthodoxy cannot go without response, so I’ve invited one of Transylvania’s leading theologians to respond: Vlad Dracul — no, not the medieval scourge of the Carpathian mountains…