Being conned by Publishers
I’m a big fan of Bruce Waltke. I’ve never met the man but I love his Old Testament Theology. I have used his commentaries on Proverbs and Micah and with Kidner on Genesis you need nothing more. So when I saw he was…
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The Welsh Alice Cooper
Last night my wife and I had the immense privilege of having dinner with Geoff Thomas and his Iola. Geoff has been praised on this blog before, and more than once. He is truly one of the giants of…
The Welsh Alice Cooper
Last night my wife and I had the immense privilege of having dinner with Geoff Thomas and his Iola. Geoff has been praised on this blog before, and more than once. He is truly one of the giants of…
Ma Lady
This is a picture of my beloved, Ma Lady. She is a Gaggia Achille lever espresso machine (Insert Tim-the-tool-man grunting). Every morning I long to see her face and flip on her switch. I know her intimately: the noise she…
The Real Scandal…
I highly recommend Carl Trueman’s excellent (and brief) ebook The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.If you are a pastor, ministry leader, or elder in a non-denominational church Trueman’s book will be especially important for you to read.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLpLocn4Js&w=460&h=292]
The Weapons of Our Warfare
Scott Oliphint’s excellent book on apologetics is now available for $5 at WTSbooks. Too often Christians rely on worldly weapons to wage spiritual warfare. Publisher’s Description: Hoping “to get us to open our Bibles again when we think about apologetics,”…
On becoming a statistic…
The Schaeffer Institute has recently released the troubling statistics of a research project among pastors. Thabiti comments on these findings in a very helpful and sobering post: This past Lord’s Day, I had the privilege of preaching 1 Timothy 5:17-20.…
Fun at the Free Church Assembly
I’m travelling home on the train from Edinburgh having spent the last 2 days at the Free Church Assembly in Edinburgh. I enjoyed the Assembly; it is quaint and old fashioned but very friendly. I was expecting to have to…
Straight from the false prophet’s mouth…
“I’m not a genius.” – Harold Camping You can read the entire article HERE. In case you were wondering, “the world will be destroyed” on October 21, 2011. I hate that because Autumn is my favorite time of year.
N.T. Wright attacks another straw man…
It seems that the former Bishop of Durham has been living under a proverbial rock. He just cannot seem to find anyone but those silly Americans who cares about questions of Hell and judgment. It seems that the Rev. Wright…