Digging in!
We live in a West London suburb. We’re about 20 -30 mins into the centre of town. Crossrail, which is going to link West to East London, will change the area in which we are dramatically. You’ll be able to get right into…
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Does the Gospel Threaten?
Does a Christian have any reason to be afraid of God? Does the gospel make any threats to God’s people or does the gospel simply promise and comfort? There is no doubt that the gospel promises and comforts. That is…
PCRT Q&A: Why So Many Singles?
Here is a second of the questions from the PCRT Q&A that we did not get to during the conference: Why so many singles? Why does it seem that God withholds marriage for so many when he clearly upholds it,…
Money, money, money!
Suppose an extremely wealthy person was willing to make a sizeable donation to your church or to your para-church organization. By sizeable, I mean 1 or 2 million U.S. dollars. Now, what if you told that person that you are…
PCRT Q/A: Biblical Grounds for Divorce
We are having a great PCRT in Grand Rapids this weekend. Our speakers Iain Duguid, David Garner, and David Murray have been terrific on our theme of Holiness and Honor: A Reformed View of Marriage and Sex. We also had…
Missional Presbyterianism Makes its Mark in Northeast Florida
Amidst a week of controversy for Presbyterian Christians in the United States, the elders of Town Center Church in Keystone Heights, Florida, released a pastoral letter outlining their new policy regarding the admission of those who listen to the music…
Progressive Christianity
“Presbyterians Approve Gay Marriage in Church Constitution.” That was the headline under which The Wall Street Journal ran the St. Patrick’s Day AP article. According to the PCUSA’s revised order, “marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and…
Something for the weekend
Jose Da Sagovia has written a helpful and thought provoking piece on the American Dream and how it relates to Arthur Miller, this isn’t for the faint hearted!! There’s been a few posts about Phillip Jensen and I wouldn’t want…
No one is turning in their grave
Over the last while I’ve had a number of people talk to me about different situations and then invoke some Reformed Christian guru saying ”Such and such would be turning in his grave if he knew”. It’s become a kind of…
In China….
I’m currently in China, where I do not have access to Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter. I suppose this is an enforced Lent for me. But I do have access to Reformation21 for some reason. I guess we are not quite…