“Why doesn’t the church know what to do with depression?” That’s the question I’ve been asking myself since the almost unbearably sad news broke that Robin Williams had taken his own life last week. There were a plethora of responses.…
“Why doesn’t the church know what to do with depression?” That’s the question I’ve been asking myself since the almost unbearably sad news broke that Robin Williams had taken his own life last week. There were a plethora of responses.…
It seems that unbelief is all the rage among some who identify themselves as Christian. Specifically, asserting that the Bible is filled with errors to the extent that Christianity needs redefining is, among some, a mark of a truly mature…
I am currently preaching through Job and previously posted links to the commentaries/resources that have been most helpful to me. I have also been helped by a number of books on the theme of suffering. Here are the ones I…
Why do good things happen to bad people and why do bad things happen to good people? Strictly speaking, there has only ever been one good person who has had bad things happen to him, and he volunteered! But the…
I’ve been on holiday and camp but have returned to find out that nothing has changed in the world of reformed evangelicals and everything has changed. First of all seeing Mark Jones drop the M bomb at Ref 21;…
The curious decision of Adam and Eve, having been the recipients of such goodness from God, to defect from their Maker, thus spoiling the “native excellence” of both themselves and “the whole world which had been created for them,” raises…
This may be one of the most meaningful song lyrics to me personally. It comes from Stevie Nick’s Landslide, one of my favorite songs. The way that she sings her “I don’t know” afterwards conveys the same wondering in my…
Allow me to interrupt all this substance for something really important. It has come to my attention that our own Carl Trueman has an avocation of which he seems quite passionate. I do not know if this presents any problem…
Michael Horton, Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014. 271 pp. $19.99 Crossway Books are doing the church a great service with their wonderful series on theologians on the Christian life. The epigram–‘gaining…
