TGC Reviews has just posted my review of Michael Horton’s A Place for Weakness. One of the things I appreciate about Michael Horton is that he writes both for the academy and also the congregation. It’s a mark of a…
V. 4. We know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our Gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. How do you know…
Some of you will be overjoyed by this post thinking that it represents the dawning of change in my political perspective (which it does not). Others of you will get angry, having the same thought. So, here goes… Over at…
One of the most depressing things about the current season of political stumping in the USA is the mindless nature of so much of the discourse. The recent sight of the unbearably self-important and ill-informed Bill O’Reilly and the…
One of the most depressing things about the current season of political stumping in the USA is the mindless nature of so much of the discourse. The recent sight of the unbearably self-important and ill-informed Bill O’Reilly and the…
‘A Planet inspired…’ so ran one of the headlines in a British newspaper today as the world it seems caught up in the joy of families reunited after the long ordeeal of the men traapped in the Chilean mine. ‘We…
From what we are able to glean from the sparse sources of the preaching of the Celtic missionaries, a general pattern emerges. They were energetic and selfless evangelists who sought nothing for themselves but to spend and be spent in…
V. 18: And she said to Elijah: ‘What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son.’ When the people of Israel…
What is moral? What is good? What gives value to life? What makes any life valuable? I could go on but those are questions that science is hopeless to answer. Don’t misunderstand. I am profoundly grateful for competent scientists. Every…
Elsewhere in the blogosphere there has been considerable chatter about the issue of what it is to be ‘missional’ arising out of Kevin DeYoung’s excellent seminar at the Desiring God conference. He defined the mission of the church in these…
