I know it’s not fashionable right now to call terrorists, well, terrorists. Anyway, it seems that those fellas we released from Gitmo were being detained for a reason. From Brian Ross, etc over at ABC News: One of the four…
Good article (part one of a series) by Martin Downes on the (almost) 20th anniversary of Robert Brow’s “manifesto” on “the new evangelicalism.” It is almost twenty years since Christianity Today published the article “Evangelical Megashift: Why you may not…
The books published in 2009 that I most appreciated are (in no particular order): Words of Life by Timothy Ward Christ-Centered Worship by Bryan Chapell The Gospel-Driven Life by Michael Horton When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert Ancient Word,…
I wasn’t born and raised in the Reformed church. In other words, I am a Reformed immigrant. Like many people in the Reformed church today, I migrated out of broad based evangelicalism and non-denominationalism. Many of my friends, both ministers…
I wasn’t born and raised in the Reformed church. In other words, I am a Reformed immigrant. Like many people in the Reformed church today, I migrated out of broad based evangelicalism and non-denominationalism. Many of my friends, both ministers…
As always, I was deeply blessed by special services of worship celebrating the birth (and life and death and resurrection) of Jesus the Christ. Of particular joy and comfort this year were the following verse from Paul Gerhardt (one of the…
As Congress and the White House march toward passing massive health care legislation, tax payers face the real possibility of being forced to fund the continuing moral catastrophe of abortion. The only hope of that not happening is for certain…
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And…
https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2549637&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 That’s Christmas (Short Film) HD from St Helen’s Church on Vimeo.
One of Milton’s earliest poems, from when he was around 21 and at Cambridge, is entitled “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.” I think Carl was at Cambridge when he was 21. Not sure, though, if he was writing poetry. Anyway,…
