One Christmas season our family went to see the “Christmas Spectacular” at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It was an enjoyable show, in spite of all the secular trappings and symbols that have come to characterize Christmas.…
Cur Deus homo? “Why did God become a man?,” Anselm asked. This is a question that has exercised theologians for hundreds of years, with the canonical materials receiving their first deep and searching analysis in Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of…
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” – Bertrand Russell I’ve noted, with some degree of envy, the lists of pastors and others who speak of…
A political science professor at Wheaton College is proudly donning a hijab during the Christmas season to demonstrate her “solidarity with Muslims.” One expects to see such nonsense at secular universities. But at the “Christian Harvard”? Say it ain’t so! …
During a recent evening worship service at our church, the Rev. Scott Cook was ordained to the gospel ministry. Scott is a recent graduation of RTS (Charlotte) and had previously been an outstanding intern at our church. I had the…
2015 has been a bumper year for the cottage industry that is Martyn Lloyd Jones hagiography. There has been a new, short biography written by his grandson, Christopher Catherwood; a first biography of his wife, Bethan Lloyd Jones, and the…
I see there is a book signing in Moscow, Idaho, today and tomorrow. I wonder, which of the authors will be there to put their John Hancocks on the title page? Greg Bahnsen and Ellen G. White are both dead…
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work” (2 Cor 9.8). The doctrine of divine sufficiency is a glorious…
The redoubtable Rachel Miller has found some fascinating instances of what would appear to be plagiarism. To quote Yogi Berra, 'It's like deja-vu, all over again.' But Rachel's only a woman, so I guess she has no authority to point…
Well, this is the time of year that bloggers are offering their top-ten, or for the more audacious, top 50 books of the year. I’ve never been one to rate my books, but I thought I might try something a…
