The High Stakes of Ordination
On Saturday (Sept 21, 2013) I took vows to be a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). I was, at that time received into the Blue Ridge Presbytery and formally accepted the call to be Lead Pastor…
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Covenantal Apologetics
K. Scott Oliphint, Covenantal Apologetics: Principles and Practice in Defense of Our Faith. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013, 277pp. $19.99 In his latest work, Covenantal Apologetics, K. Scott Oliphint seeks to recast Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics as “covenantal apologetics” –…
Thoughts on street preaching
In recent weeks there has been a spate of arrests of Christian brothers in the UK involved in street preaching and other open-air witness. As someone who preaches in this way fairly regularly, this is obviously a matter of interest…
“No Post Code Envy”
When I was in the tenth grade, my big aspiration was to be a Laker Girl like Paula Abdul. I know, another embarrassing trivia about myself that chips away at my ability to keep readers. What can I say? I…
New & Noteworthy Book
Reformation Heritage Books sent me this promotional video yesterday for the release of Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation by Beeke and Boekestein. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OkP8psAlkTk I posted information about this book back in July of this year.…
Short Video on Preaching
Banner of Truth has launched a new series of video shorts by their authors. You can see the first, featuring Westminster alumnus and PCA pastor, Paul Wolfe, here. It is brief but contains a remarkable amount of wise thinking…
Short Video on Preaching
Banner of Truth has launched a new series of video shorts by their authors. You can see the first, featuring Westminster alumnus and PCA pastor, Paul Wolfe, here. It is brief but contains a remarkable amount of wise thinking…
Now I can finally say it.
Some readers may remember an apparently empty link I posted a few months back on another good reason not to be a baptist. Having been reprimanded at that time by the powers-that-be for having been too quick off the mark…
Now I can finally say it.
Some readers may remember an apparently empty link I posted a few months back on another good reason not to be a baptist. Having been reprimanded at that time by the powers-that-be for having been too quick off the mark…
Nor the Heart of Man Imagined
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…