The news broke this week that City Church San Francisco has reversed its prohibition against practicing homosexuals being admitted into church membership (see here). Previously, only celibate homosexuals were accepted as biblically faithful Christians. Senior Pastor Fred Harrell explained the…
I’m just going to go ahead and embarrass myself here—for the sake of the gospel and all. When I was a sophomore in college, I was heavily convicted that I was not living my life according to who I was—a…
Follow the links to read the introduction and part one of this series. “In forming a catalogue of Scripture,” Calvin writes, “they [the Roman Catholic Council of Trent] mark all the books with the same chalk, and insist on placing…
This is the second in a series exploring the theology of Two Kingdoms across a variety of topics. The first article can be found here – Editor Evangelicals, always a couple decades behind the latest mainline bandwagon, have in recent years…
Rusty Reno at First Things has now published the reflections on Evangelicals and Catholics Together. You can find Mark McDowell’s introduction and rationale here, Timothy George’s piece here, Thomas Guarino’s here, and mine here. My approach is slightly different to…
Last week Paul Levy drew our attention to this video where Phillip Jensen worries that Calvinists “preach the system” rather than “preaching the Bible.” Mike Ovey has responded, quite well I think, to Jensen’s worry here. (HT: Jonty Rhodes.)
The ECT articles that were originally planned for Ref21 have been published on First Things. I would encourage you to read them all but particularly Carl’s last article in the series. Let me quote from Trueman speaking of what has happened…
Marc Baer, Mere Believers: How Eight Faithful Lives Changed the Course of History. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013. 190 pages. $22.00 Although I double-majored in English and history as an undergraduate, when I moved on to graduate school, I narrowed…
Marc Baer, Mere Believers: How Eight Faithful Lives Changed the Course of History. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013. 190 pages. $22.00 Although I double-majored in English and history as an undergraduate, when I moved on to graduate school, I narrowed…
We only need to read the headlines in the morning paper or turn on the evening news to have confirmed what we already know to be true, suffering is an ever-present companion in this world. As a result of the…
