If poetry has any benefit at all for the Christian (and it does), then certainly one of its more valuable functions is to show us that things are not always straightforward and simple; that our lives are both complex and…
I just returned from this year’s trip to Uganda to preach at the African Bible College. As before, it was a truly inspiring time of ministry and fellowship. I thought that I would chronicle the trip in a number of…
This weekend we launch the 2007 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology with our meeting in Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, California. This year’s theme is: “The Word: Above All Earthly Powers.” This is the PCRT’s first visit to Sacramento, and we…
It’s been called the greatest hoax ever played on the classical music recording industry. Several years ago, a British pianist that hardly anyone had even heard of, and who had recently died, Joyce Hatto by name, had, so we were…
Rarely has one man stood up against so many opponents–or against so great an evil–for so long and with so little encouragement, before finally meeting with such a complete triumph, as William Wilberforce in his long battle against the…
Rarely has one man stood up against so many opponents–or against so great an evil–for so long and with so little encouragement, before finally meeting with such a complete triumph, as William Wilberforce in his long battle against the…
I am very pleased to announce that Dan Doriani’s commentary on James has just been released — a very handsome volume. In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that it is in the Reformed Expository Commentary series that…
No doubt the blogosphere will be agog today over James Cameron’s announcement (he of Titanic fame) that he has found the tomb of Jesus (and his son, of all people). The first advance notice I saw of today’s press conference…
IVP-UK is set to publish a landmark work: Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution. (Clicking on the link will take you to a website for the book. You can also order it from Amazon.com/uk–it is due…
Mississippi was great fun. Getting to meet `Nate-Dog’ and `The Gnome’ and the various other criminal Welsh-types who gather around Ref21 was a pleasure. And staying at a hotel where the guy behind the desk looked like Rod Steiger in `In…
