Sitting with the kids!
I’ve spent the last 3 Sundays going to church with my family and sitting with them. I want to recommend it to those of us who are preachers. There are men who can’t handle sitting in the congregation they have…
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Cigar Smoke and Mirrors and Transformation
How does one judge that one is growing old? In Britain, it is typically thought to be when the policemen start to look younger. Over here, I have a sneaking suspicion that it is when you read cigar aficionado D.…
Cigar Smoke and Mirrors and Transformation
How does one judge that one is growing old? In Britain, it is typically thought to be when the policemen start to look younger. Over here, I have a sneaking suspicion that it is when you read cigar aficionado D.…
Belfast and Bookshops
Three great weeks in Northern Ireland, where even the friendliest greeting in the street can sound aggressive because of the sheer volume most men speak at. It’s a wonderful place, full of beautiful scenery, fried breakfasts with absurd amounts of different breads…
Chapter 31
i. For the better government, and further edification of the church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called synods or councils; and it belongeth to the overseers and other rulers of the particular churches, by virtue of…
An explanation
I have been somewhat relieved to discover the reason for a slight slowdown in my recent output. It is not that I have been busy in the church, or that I have taken a holiday with my family, or that…
I Don’t Know a God of Second Chances
Holiness knows no do-overs. When I meet my Creator, I cannot call a mulligan. Good is pure, or it is not good. The minute we look to anything else other than God for good, we have turned from holiness and…
A Song for the Suffering
[vimeo w=400&h=300]I come, God, I come I return to the Lord The one who’s broken The one who’s torn me apart You strike down to bind me up You say you do it all in love That I might…
Hart on Calvinism
I finished Darryl Hart’s Calvinism: A History last week. While I am set to provide a thorough review for the Westminster Theological Journal, I want to give a few brief comments now as this is a very fine book which…
Hart on Calvinism
I finished Darryl Hart’s Calvinism: A History last week. While I am set to provide a thorough review for the Westminster Theological Journal, I want to give a few brief comments now as this is a very fine book which…