Category Reformation21

According to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828, a “pew” was defined as “an enclosed seat in a church” that had been in the past “made square” (i.e. boxed in with doors for access).  His dictionary…

Emily Letts, who apparently has received death threats since the release of her video, got pregnant and immediately decided she was going to have an abortion. In order to help others understand that abortion is safe and perhaps even painless,…

S.M. (Bod Alwyn) God set before me loveTo draw my soul to him,But I was bound in Satan’s chainsAnd revelled in my sin. I saw the mercy seat,Was taught the way to go;I saw that Christ had died for sin,But…

Several weeks ago a dear friend sent a lecture to me, titled, “Theology of Presence in Missions.” While I do not recall all of the details of the lecture, I was especially struck by the way in which the lecturer…

A few weeks ago I drew attention to some community pricing offers at Logos that might be of interest to Baptists. Of those, the Baptist Covenant Theology Collection has now crept over the edge and is now available (as a…

As we move now half-way through our Ten Tenets, the next tenet we want to keep in mind in our apologetic is, in some significant ways, central. So, it is fitting that it appears at the “center” of our list.…

As we move now half-way through our Ten Tenets, the next tenet we want to keep in mind in our apologetic is, in some significant ways, central. So, it is fitting that it appears at the “center” of our list.…

When we are tempted to sin, to what or to whom do we look? The standard answer, which is appropriate, is Christ. We look to him, the great healer and physician, the alpha and omega of our faith, by faith.…

It is good of Todd to come back to me about fruitfulness (there’s not been enough back and forth on Ref 21 for a while) and I appreciate that if you start caring about fruitfulness too much you might end…

I managed to sneak in a few hours at the Banner of Truth Ministers Conference in Leicester last week. I was unable to stay for more than a day, but heard a sweet sermon from Andrew Davies, what was for…