Last evening I was greatly blessed, together with many members of the congregation I serve, to participate in a prayer vigil for the nine victims of the racist attack on Emmanuel AME in Charleston. The service was held at Allen…
“Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but…
Most evangelical presentations of the doctrine of Scripture are implicitly trinitarian. They identify the Father as Scripture’s primary author, the Son as Scripture’s central subject matter, and the Spirit as the immediate agent of prophetic and apostolic inspiration. Scripture is…
Like so many Christians, I thought of the terrible atrocity in Charleston during my time of prayer this morning. I asked the Lord for the grace needed by so many to bear the pain of such loss, and for mercy…
The Westminster Conference will take place later this year, God willing, in central London at Regent Hall on Oxford Street. As usual, there are two days of lectures and discussion, Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th December. The outline for the…
Calvin assumes that Abraham’s divorce from his nephew Lot (Gen. 13.8-9) caused the eminent patriarch considerable pain. “There is no doubt,” the Reformer writes, “that the wound inflicted by that separation was very severe, since he was obliged to send…
Many Christians live under the affliction of fearing that they have committed a special sin that places them in an unpardonable category. Despite their faith in Jesus, they have been led to believe that a certain prior action in their…
Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16 There is a fine line between the…
1. The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology is now available for about $20.00 (softcover). Go here and plug in this 50% off code: 50CNK15N For $20, this book is a steal. My copy just arrived on my door-step and…
Aaron Clay Denlinger (ed.), Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015. $130.00 The last three decades have witnessed a radical reappraisal of post-Reformation Reformed theology. The work of Richard A. Muller and those who…
