I will be receiving my copy of Dual Citizens by Jason Stellman this week. It promises to be an important and helpful book. Publisher’s Description: New covenant believers live between “the already” and “not yet,” a point in redemptive history…
When is a “church” not a church? How do we recognize the true church of Jesus Christ? And how do we discern the false? Calvin’s answer to what was in his day–and remains–an important question, is, essentially: the ministry of…
The 16th century Reformers fought to win back the keys of the kingdom. Calvin held that ordinarily there is no salvation outside of the church, but he did not hold that the church itself was the repository of forgiveness. No,…
Carl Trueman’s latest over at Ref21 is a timely warning about the dangers of personality cults within the church. Specifically, Trueman warns those of us who are among the “Young, Restless, and Reformed” crowd to watch out for this tendency.…
As someone who loves music and is currently preaching through Hebrews I found the story of David Bazan compelling and sad. Bazan is a singer/songwriter who formerly fronted the Christian indie band Pedro the Lion. This article takes a look…
The latest issues of 9 Marks Journal is dedicated to the subject of Church Discipline. It is, as always, worth reading.
One of the many books I enjoyed reading this summer was Original Sin, by Alan Jacobs. The book included this gem of a quotation from novelist Rebecca West: “If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on…
Many of you may already know of this, but in case you don’t . . . The folks at Christianity Today put out a wonderful bulletin insert called Glimpses of Christian History. It’s a four-page, full color piece they put…
Katie Galli at CT interviews Kevin DeYoung about his recent book (co-authored with Ted Kluck), Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion.
Over the last few months, I have been asked in numerous contexts what I think about the young, restless and reformed (YRR) movement(s) described in Collin Hansen’s book of the same name. I did do a quasi -review of this…
