Another day of lectures and sermons: Evidently, Calvinists (the ones present at the Calvin500 celebrations) are prepared to hear three sermons in succession from 7-10 pm! Tonight, Phil Ryken gave an outstanding sermon in 1 Corinthians 16:5-11, illustrating Paul’s constraint…
“Herein is comfort for the sorely tempted ones. There is still more to encourage them if they reflect that the Lord Jesus, though tempted, gloriously triumphed, and as he overcame, so surely shall his followers also, for Jesus is the…
Three things of note: 1. The interview between Mark Dever and Ken Myers at 9Marks is worth a listen. Myers is particularly interesting on blogs — he rarely reads them, and never bothers with the comment threads, given their status…
Three things of note: 1. The interview between Mark Dever and Ken Myers at 9Marks is worth a listen. Myers is particularly interesting on blogs — he rarely reads them, and never bothers with the comment threads, given their status…
Today’s message was part 7 in the series on Hebrews – “Suffering and Solidarity” (Hebrews 2:10-18). You can listen to or download it HERE.
Day 1 of the Calvin 500. Sinclair Ferguson opened the proceedings preaching from Calvin’s pulpit (not really; that one fell to pieces and the present one is nineteenth century but in the same spot). His text was Philippians 3:8-12 in…
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…
Over at Ref21 Joel Beeke has written an “open letter to true believers.” Dear believer, I desire to write you about something with which you are well acquainted: affliction. Much has been written on affliction by our forebears. A good…
‘What we offer the world is not ourselves or our moral example or our spiritual integrity. What we offer the world is our broken lives, saying, “We are sinners saved by grace.” What we offer the world is Jesus Christ…
Recently, I tweeted my appreciation for T.H.L. Parker’s Portrait of Calvin. I have had the little book since the days of my doctoral studies in Britain (my copy is a little hardback, published by SCM and bought second-hand – it…
