I had a delightful day yesterday at the Grace Baptist Church in Edlesborough, hearing Stuart Olyott run about 60 men of varying ages and backgrounds through what it meant to preach the Word of God. Two morning sessions encouraged us…
About 120 people gathered during Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the long-running Westminster Conference. A mix of regulars and newer and younger faces enjoyed a couple of days of theological and historical cogitation. The first day opened with Stephen…
I am looking forward to reading a new publication from Reformed Baptist Academic Press called Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology, edited by Rich Barcellos. It is a delight to see reformed Baptists wrestling through the rich…
On many occasions in my younger days I imagined what it would be like to be “left behind”–to walk into an empty house after school, perhaps, only to discover that everyone had experienced the rapture except for me. Never, however,…
In Calvin’s judgment, the biblical story of Noah’s ark constitutes “history” in the proper sense of the term (i.e., it happened more or less as described). Calvin is quite concerned, however, to emphasize to his readers that God played an…
Michael Reeves is Director of Union and Senior Lecturer at Wales Evangelical School of Theology. Previously he was the Head of Theology for the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship in the UK. He has an MA in History from the…
We must all be very grateful to Paul Levy for his masterful exposition of Mark Jones’s blurb on the KJV Study Bible. But it is somewhat disappointing that we have not yet had an exposition of Mr Levy’s house from…
I spent the last three days with Paul Levy and his family. Great fun. Levy gave me directions to get to a train near his house, but the grammar and spelling were so bad that I ended up in a…
I’ve spent the last 3 days with Mark Jones staying in my house which has been good value. He’s not what I expected. A conglomeration of South Africa, England and Canada and a rabid Liverpool fan. He was in London for the…
The primary service which Systematic Theology performs for the preacher is to provide him with his message. But that’s not all. It should also give his message biblical proportion and balance. After all, it is only too easy to ride…
