Back to Basics
I hope in the next few weeks to post on some books of basic theology and discipleship, not for readers to recommend to younger Christians in their churches (though I hope they will do so) but to encourage Ref21 readers…
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A Prophet In Rough Clothing
Before any great achievement, some measure of the same depression is very usual. Surveying the difficulties before us, our hearts sink within us. The sons of Anak stalk before us, and we are as grasshoppers in our own sight in…
About that dog walking on two legs……
A friend sent me this link earlier today. It raises a number of issues in my mind, a bit like seeing a dog walking on two legs. One instinctively knows it is strange and feels it is wrong; but as…
About that dog walking on two legs……
A friend sent me this link earlier today. It raises a number of issues in my mind, a bit like seeing a dog walking on two legs. One instinctively knows it is strange and feels it is wrong; but as…
2012 ARP General Synod Faces Tough Decisions
This upcoming meeting of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church’s General Synod, scheduled for June 5-7, 2012, has the potential to be one of the more significant meetings of that body in recent memory. Judging from the contents of the Synod…
Blessed by Bunyan
Every once in a while you come across a great quote that grips your heart and reminds you of all that you have in Jesus. This week I came across just such a quote by John Bunyan concerning the righteousness…
Book Recommendation:
Jesus Loves the Little Children, Daniel R. Hyde (Reformed Fellowship, 2006, 2012) The subtitle of this short book is, Why We Baptize Children. Here is a topic that I have not brought up on my blog because I know I…
Something is wrong with our ego
In his new and helpful little book (a pamphlet really), The Freedom Of Self-Forgetfulness, Tim Keller writes: The ego often hurts. That is because it has something incredibly wrong with it. Something unbelievably wrong with it. It is always drawing…
“The gospel is powerful in spite of us, not because of us”
How often we overestimate our importance! It’s not that the way we live does not matter immensely, for it does. It’s not that our living does not impact our effectiveness to advance the gospel, for it does. But let us…
Machen for Poland
A group of Polish Reformed believers are raising funds to translate Machen’s important little book, Christianity and Liberalism, into Polish. Anyone interested in helping with this project can find out how at this link to the Tolle Lege Insitute. The…