Let us not tamper with the Word of God…
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On Criticizing Your Church…
Excellent post from Jared Wilson: That voice in your head that keeps rehearsing the disappointments and flaws of your church is not from the Lord. It is the accuser, helping you get to the “I have no need of you”…
New Books on Old Princeton
I had the pleasure today of hearing Jim Garretson lecture on Archibald Alexander and the connection of piety and theology in Old Princeton. Jim is convinced that a failure to pay attention to practical piety in the lives of seminary…
New Books on Old Princeton
I had the pleasure today of hearing Jim Garretson lecture on Archibald Alexander and the connection of piety and theology in Old Princeton. Jim is convinced that a failure to pay attention to practical piety in the lives of seminary…
The Constant Reader
I am launching a new feature at 1517 called “The Constant Reader.” The goal will be to offer book reviews, recommendations, as well as words of caution concerning problematic books. One of God’s good gifts to me as a pastor…
How Jesus Runs the Church
Guy Prentiss Waters, How Jesus Runs the Church (Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, 2011, 178 pp.) The foreword to this very timely and useful book was written by Dr. T. David Gordon. He relates that, for approximately a decade, he taught…
This Lent I am giving up . . . reticence
I will make no bones about it: I am an Old World (for which please read ‘continental European’) Christian, of Puritan inclination, and a Dissenter – specifically, a Particular or Reformed Baptist. That means several things. By conviction and heritage…
A Culpable Case of Amnesia
Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence (1 Peter 3:15). We have…
The Glorious Fault of Angels and of Gods: Ungodly Reflections on Alister Chapman’s John Stott
While for me, J I Packer and Dr Lloyd-Jones are the most important British evangelicals of the last hundred years, there is no doubt that, in terms of world impact, it is John Stott who looms largest for the current…
The Glorious Fault of Angels and of Gods: Ungodly Reflections on Alister Chapman’s John Stott
While for me, J I Packer and Dr Lloyd-Jones are the most important British evangelicals of the last hundred years, there is no doubt that, in terms of world impact, it is John Stott who looms largest for the current…