Noah’s first deed upon exiting the ark — at least as recorded in Scripture — was to build an altar and offer unto God sacrifices from the “clean” animals and birds which had accompanied him and his family on his…
“Mark, it’s a sad fact, but books on our Lord don’t sell well” – Anonymous. Blog posts on Jesus don’t do well, either, if you are judging a blog post by stats. But what about books and posts on Christ’s…
[I probably do not need to inform regular readers of this blog that Christmas is not my favourite season. Nevertheless, I try to take the opportunity to use the occasion. Recently, preaching from Luke 1, I was disappointed with the…
Again, my mailbox had another letter from what I am sure is a faithful and committed Christian urging me to not wish you or anyone else a merry Christmas. I can’t count the number of copies of this letter from…
I must thank Professor McCall for his full and hearty (c.2000 word) response to what he (presumably ironically) calls my “essay” (a 500 word blogpost) on Wesley and Pelagius. Mark Jones has urged me to be brief, so even though…
I. Introduction I have always found Lee Gatiss to be a fine historian, so I was disappointed to see his claims in the recent “Wesley and Pelagius“. He points out that Pelagius has been universally reviled and rejected in orthodox…
Here is the final installment of my Christmas devotionals based on the pre-incarnate appearances of Jesus in the Old Testament. May the Lord bless you all, especially as the gospel promises of Christ are celebrated in our churches and homes!…
A number of pastoral issues have arisen recently which have brought home to me some particular truths and some particular emphases arising from them. Many of these situations are on the fringes of church life or outside it (though I…
Crown and Joy Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, VA, celebrated its ninth Sunday on December 21, 2014. Time seems to be moving quite quickly. Before you know it, if the Lord wills, we will have finished our series through the book…
The singularly brilliant Christian apologist of the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal, noted the existential reality that the human condition was one of inconstancy, boredom and anxiety. For him, the only real cure was made known in history by the God…
