A Ref21 reader has brought to my attention this story in which Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, claims that the explosion of emotion surrounding the death in 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales, marked the…
Editors’ Note: This is the third and final installment of this series. You can access part one here and part two here. Part III: Church Development, Presbyterianism, & China The need for church development, so acute in China, exists…
Editors’ Note: This is the third and final installment of this series. You can access part one here and part two here. Part III: Church Development, Presbyterianism, & China The need for church development, so acute in China, exists…
Brad Hambrick, Burnout (P&R, 2013) Like every other morning, I awoke at 6 o’clock to write and study. By 7:00, it was time to rotate to my next usual station, performing the talented task of making breakfasts and lunches simultaneously.…
C.M. (Godre’r Coed) How can this guilty sinner flee The judgement that is mine?How can a wretched man escapeThe punishment divine? Tell me where wrath and mercy meet;Show me God reconciled.Where can a rebel find true peace,Rest for a heart…
It is sometimes difficult to work out exactly what people are doing when they open their Bibles and let their eyes pass over the pages of Scripture. An observer might surmise that one of the things that they are not…
iii. Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father’s justice in their behalf. Yet, inasmuch as he was…
ii. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification: yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith,…
”This ordeal he refers to as a ‘bitter cup which he ardently prays may, if possible, be taken from him, so that he does not have to drink it. What is this cup? Is it physical suffering from which he…
Preachers are meant to be conduits for the pure word of God. Sometimes the pipe gets dirty and what comes out is impure. Sometimes the pipe gets clogged and the truth gets impeded. Some preachers have poorer settings: trickle, fine…
