Christmas (along with Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost) is one of five “evangelical feast days” that celebrate key moments in the Son of God’s saving mission. On these days, the church turns its attention in a special way to…
As our families and churches prepare for the Christmas celebration, many are seeking to emphasize the biblical expectation of the promised Savior, rather than the commercial and sentimental emphasis of our society. One way to do this is to walk…
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…
