It’s been too long away from Ref 21, computer troubles, endless sermon preparation and last week I was away for a short preachers conference with other London ministers. It was a good time. Peter Adam on Revelation, Nigel Styles on…
Over at TeamPyro, Dan ‘Dispo’ Phillips and Frank ‘Sollozzo’ Turk have posted a couple of very good reflections on a recent post over at The Gospel Coalition on the indicative/imperative thing (and by inference sanctification). Their observations provoke two thoughts: …
Over at TeamPyro, Dan ‘Dispo’ Phillips and Frank ‘Sollozzo’ Turk have posted a couple of very good reflections on a recent post over at The Gospel Coalition on the indicative/imperative thing (and by inference sanctification). Their observations provoke two thoughts: …
Oh that the Christian reader would seriously consider these twelve things: There is nothing that the great God hates–but sin. There is nothing that He has revealed His wrath from heaven against–but sin. There is nothing that crucifies the Lord of glory…
A few more odds and ends. Derek Thomas is interviewed on the latest Mortification of Spin, where he talks about potential family connections to Pelagius and Max Boyce and, on a more serious note, Calvin’s sermons on Job, his own…
A few more odds and ends. Derek Thomas is interviewed on the latest Mortification of Spin, where he talks about potential family connections to Pelagius and Max Boyce and, on a more serious note, Calvin’s sermons on Job, his own…
This is the question that God asks Adam after he partook of the forbidden fruit. We are going through Genesis in my Bible study now, and we have come to the Fall. Today these words from God really shocked me.…
Richard A. Muller, Calvin and the Reformed Tradition: On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), 288pp., paperback, $39.99 Richard Muller’s latest book, Calvin and the Reformed Tradition, is the product of many…
i. Good works are only such as God has commanded in His holy Word, and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men, out of blind zeal, or upon any pretence of good intention. With their typical…
This month, I thought I would use this column to indulge in a little thought experiment. What, I wonder, if the conservative evangelical church world came to be dominated by a symbiotic network of high-profile and charismatic leaders (think more…
