EPCEW have a couple of conferences they’ve asked me to highlight The first being the London Presbyterian Conference on Sat 18th October with Ligon Duncan, Andy Young, Ian Hamilton and Bill Schweitzer which takes place in Central London …
The Baptists love their water; The Covenanters love their Psalter; But mess with the Klineans, You’ll soon be on the altar! The good folk at Ref21 – that is, the top men – were so chuffed with my entrance into…
Earlier this summer Pete Enns wrote a blog post describing the pivotal role that I Cor. 10.4 played in his progressive rethink of the notion of biblical inerrancy (at least as that notion has been understood in traditional Reformed teaching).…
In the 1990s and early noughties Australian cricket was dominant. Depressingly aggressive, they would come over to England and their bowlers would rip into us, their batsman would knock us all over the park and England were often left a quivering wreck. It…
I’m not a musicologist or a respected lyrical critic. In fact, I don’t know much at all about music. I’m a novice theologian who can’t help but be pricked when he hears what is played on the radio during his…
I’m not a musicologist or a respected lyrical critic. In fact, I don’t know much at all about music. I’m a novice theologian who can’t help but be pricked when he hears what is played on the radio during his…
It’s a big day for Ref21 – even after a busy summer with lots of unknown signings to the blog, right at the end of the transfer window like Man United signing Di Maria on deadline day, Ref 21 have…
In parts 1 and 2, I suggested that liturgy does not necessarily keep minorities away from our Presbyterian and Reformed churches. Following our examination of the liturgy, I wanted to pose another question: What about music? The so-called worship wars,…
How pleased and blest was I To hear the people cry,“Come, let us seek our God today!”Yes, with a cheerful zealWe haste to Zion’s hill,And there our vows and honours pay. The excitement is building and the tension is mounting.…
A regrettable piece was published on the Aquila report concerning the Reformed doctrine of republication. I honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. In it the author claims that the views of Meredith G. Kline represent “historic, mainstream Reformed…
