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Yet another fine book from Joel Beeke, published by Bryntirion Press this month. Oh, yes, it has another blurb from that Thomas guy!

When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released 15 (illegally held, by all objective accounts) British prisoners this week, he claimed that he was doing so “on the occasion of the birthday of the great prophet [Muhammad] . . . and for…

While making final preparations for Sunday morning’s message, I met up with an old friend. A Calvin quote on the purpose of 1 Peter that I think I first read about five years ago. It struck me (reading it this afternoon)…

Phil Ryken’s Good Friday message is now available to read, here.

Yesterday we held our traditional Good Friday worship service at Tenth Presbyterian Church.  We meet at noon — a good time for Center City workers to come over on a lunch break.  I was especially blessed by a beautiful tenor…

I find it hard not to envy the disciples a little. They were there for the first Easter. Therefore, they were the first to hear the good news of the resurrection and the first to see the risen Christ. Don’t…

I am also wildly enthusiastic about this volume, hot off the press (Evangelical Press). As the picture says, its a volume by Joel Beeke on John’s epistles. Some dude called Derek Thomas blurbs on the front cover (too small to…

I may have mentioned this book before in these columns but there’s no harm in repeating my enthusiasm for this volume by Thabiti Anyabwile called The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors (Crossway).  It is a…

Paul Helm has posted an excellent little piece on what definitions do and don’t do. A few quotes: “Berkhof’s definition is not an attempt to replace the language of the Psalms or of any other language, or to be cleverer…

History is important; but the current distaste for history doesn’t fill one with much confidence that this kind of thing can be reversed.