For those who may not know, the fourth annual Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary Conference will be held August 23-25 at Calvin Prince Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year the theme is “The Beauty and Glory of the Father.” Here are the…
How would you close a sermon? How would you bring to an end a sermon in which you were pleading for sinners to receive God’s great pardon for sin? Here is an example from Spurgeon, preaching from Psalm 25.11 (“Pardon…
I return from a welcome holiday (during which the growing murmur of delight at the prospect that I might have been banished, or for some other reason no longer be contributing here, was becoming distinctly audible) to find that life…
The Christian Faith, Michael Horton (Zondervan, 2011) Since I was emphasizing the covenant aspect of God’s Word in my last book review, I wanted to share an excerpt from Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith, where he dedicates a whole chapter…
Why do People Leave the Catholic Church? Journeys of Faith is the title of a recent book which contains a number of biographical narratives about people in the US context who have changed their Christian allegiance from one church or…
Why do People Leave the Catholic Church? Journeys of Faith is the title of a recent book which contains a number of biographical narratives about people in the US context who have changed their Christian allegiance from one church or…
I was back in my pulpit yesterday after a relatively short Summer break. Our Summer was not the one we had planned. Our eldest son was due to get married on July 25th, and three days before the event it…
I wish I would have exuded the epitome of the godly-helper-wife when my husband asked me to “stop by” the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew his registration sticker for his truck today. I wasn’t. Of course I was going to…
One of the joys of Fridays in the UK is 5 minutes with…. on the BBC website. Someone of some relative interest is given a 5 minute interview by Matthew Stadlen, this week columnist Peter Hitchens is interviewed, Hitchens is…
A couple of thoughts on Sean’s helpful clarification: First, in his first post, it is important to note that Sean was not simply speaking positively of Covenant. My concern was that he passed a general judgment on all seminaries with…
