The Two Kingdoms Doctrine: What’s The Fuss All About? Part 2: John Calvin Editors’ Note: This essay is the second of three. The first introduced the two kingdoms doctrine while the third will explain the two kingdoms doctrine as it…
I would not necessarily agree with all the emphases and recommendations, but – as someone who might end up at the sharp end of this kind of law – I appreciate the clarity of Rowan Atkinson’s argument, and the defence…
The recent events surrounding Dinesh D’Souza are surely a clarion call for all of us to examine ourselves: let him who thinks he stands, etc. etc. Yet, while the questions hanging over the matter regarding his marriage are worrying, I…
The recent events surrounding Dinesh D’Souza are surely a clarion call for all of us to examine ourselves: let him who thinks he stands, etc. etc. Yet, while the questions hanging over the matter regarding his marriage are worrying, I…
In Search of the City on a Hill, Richard M. Gamble, (Continuum, 2012) Do you believe that America is the “city on a hill” that Christ was referring to in his Sermon on the Mount? Are there more than one…
Matthew Henry was born on 18 October 1662, not long after Black Bartholomew’s Day (24 August 1662), the date on which his father – in common with about 2000 other ministers of the gospel – was ejected from the Church…
Light is one of those commodities, like oxygen, much underestimated until one finds oneself in need of it. I am particularly conscious of this because my desk light – a quite splendid piece of kit – decided to pack up…
Wise Counsel: John Newton’s Letters to John Ryland Jr.Grant Gordon (ed.)Banner of Truth, 2009 (428pp, hbk)ISBN 9781848710535 Almost every young minister of the gospel could do with a Newton. They may not always realise that they need a Newton, but…
Train up a husband in the way that he should go, And when he matures, you get the credit. Oh wait, that’s not how the verse goes? Are you sure? Because sometimes I think that well-intentioned wives operate from this…
The adjective ‘confessional’ has undergone something of a renaissance over recent years with the advent of the concept of the ‘confessional evangelical’ gaining some popularity. This particular conjunction of terms seems to approximate to the meaning of ‘conservative evangelical’ of…
