A striking quotation from Richard Sibbes. Worth bearing in mind as you prepare to preach on the Lord’s Day: Ministers by their calling are friends of the Bride, and to bring Christ and his Spouse together, and therefore ought, upon…
Jim Cassidy, like myself a fully-paid-up middle aged member of the Out Crowd otherwise known as the O.P.C., has reminded me that the latest edition of The Confessional Presbyterian (please don’t let the spooky cover picture of Archie A put…
Jim Cassidy, like myself a fully-paid-up middle aged member of the Out Crowd otherwise known as the O.P.C., has reminded me that the latest edition of The Confessional Presbyterian (please don’t let the spooky cover picture of Archie A put…
vii. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of…
A few posts ago I raised the question of the stability of individual confessional points when isolated from a more elaborate confessional framework. Perhaps I might coin a term at this point: doctrinal atomism, defined as the ability to hold…
A few posts ago I raised the question of the stability of individual confessional points when isolated from a more elaborate confessional framework. Perhaps I might coin a term at this point: doctrinal atomism, defined as the ability to hold…
The Public Ministry of ChristWilliam G. Blaikie This volume, first published in 1883, bridges the disciplines of Christology and pastoral theology, and its author will need no commendation to those who value Scriptural studies that blend scholarship and devotion. Blaikie’s…
Gospel Amnesia, Luma Simms (GCD, 2013) The title gives you a pretty good clue about this book. It’s a condition that we all need to be on guard against. And it can even be contagious. None of us are immune…
Scott Clarke has spent a fair amount of time in the Blogging Doghouse as have I, but welcome back to the man with this cracker on ‘What pastors shouldn’t tell their wives’.
vi. The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing…
