Pastoral Letter, no. 4
My dear friends: This coming Sunday morning, I plan on mentioning C. S. Lewis’s essay on “The Inner Ring.” I would encourage you to read it (or reread it as the case may be). You can find it on the…
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J.I. Packer on “Cultivating Awe in the Presence of God”
Our readers may be interested in this video, which looks at topics such as Cultivating Awe in the Presence of God, Christian Meditation and Knowing Christ. J.I. Packer is always worth listening to. We did manage to talk about his writing…
Dispatch from Notre Dame’s Creation out of Nothing: Origins and Contemporary Significance Conference (part 2)
This is the second (and final) part to the report. One can read the first part here ~ the editor …The ‘nothingness’ that enters into human experience through acts of sin is something of which Augustine was acutely aware when…
Marie Durand
Simonetta Carr, Marie Durand. Christian Biographies for Young Readers. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Reformation Heritage Books. 64 pp. 2015. $17.99 When you do a search on Amazon for “biographies for children,” you find a list of books about people who are…
The Difficulty of Prayer (and a solution)
Prayer is not easy. I find that true myself, but others whom I respect have also given testimony to the difficulty of prayer. Some chaps make it sound easy; if they spend hours a day in the tent of meeting,…
Theological Eschatology 5 – Heavenly-Mindedness
This is the fifth (and final) article in this series on theological eschatology. To read the other installments, one can find the introduction here, the second here, third here, and fourth here ~ Mark McDowell, editor Theological method follows its matter. In other words, sound theology…
Theological Eschatology 5 – Heavenly-Mindedness
This is the fifth (and final) article in this series on theological eschatology. To read the other installments, one can find the introduction here, the second here, third here, and fourth here ~ Mark McDowell, editor Theological method follows its matter. In other words, sound theology…
James Is, You Know, in the Bible
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was discussing the necessity of works to salvation when a fellow Reformed minister accused him of legalism. This pastor, noted for promoting a radical version of Lutheran soteriology, cut him down…
In Defense of Piper
I’ve been told that some folk are taking issue with John Piper’s Foreword to Thomas Schreiner’s book on justification. According to Piper, who agrees with Schreiner, we are “right with God by faith alone” but we do not “attain heaven…
Recalcitrant Reason Requires a Firm Foundation
In the past three articles, I tried to respond to one particular objection to a Reformed approach to apologetics. That objection centers on a supposed confusion in Covenantal Apologetics between epistemological and ontological principles. There is much more that can…