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There is an obituary of J Alan Groves posted on the Westminster website, www.wts.edu, and a moving account of his last day on the family blog at www.algroves.info.  In times of such loss, it is good to remember that Christianity…

Yesterday, J. Alan Groves entered into the glory of his Lord after a long struggle with cancer.  Al was professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, a fervent and humble disciple of Jesus Christ, and a warm friend to…

As I may have mentioned in a previous post, Makoto Fujimura is a brilliant New York artist whose deeply Christian work represents a synthesis of ancient Japanese techniques with Western styles.   Fujimura distributes occasional essays on Christianity and the arts under the title…

I have received some complaints that my interaction with Phil Ryken (see below, 1/29/07) on patriarchy represents a capitulation on the issue of biblically-mandated male leadership.  My comment on use of the term “patriarchy” was made more or less in…

The next stop on our tour through proverbial masculinity is self-control.  Proverbs 16:32 tells us, “Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Self-control is especially…

Pray for Alistair Begg, who announces here that he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

9Marks has a new newsletter online [PDF]. Here’s a teaser: This issue of 9News and the next are devoted to the topic of elders. This month, we asked a number of thoughtful pastors like John MacArthur, Alexander Strauch, Tom Schreiner,…

Thanks Phil! Readers might like to note that two additional items have been added since last week: an extra article on Spurgeon and aiming for conversions in preaching written by Jonathan Watson (General Editor of The Banner of Truth Trust).…