You might be forgiven for thinking this prose reads like Jeremy Walker’s and is of Walker-esque length but infact it dates from 1862 and is one of Brownlow North’s prayers. ”His opening prayer always had a solemnizing effect on the…
Not much a Scottish Presbyterian can learn from Wales you might think, but it’s been a delight to join with brethren from all over the world for the quadrennial meeting of the International Conference of Reformed Churches. It’s a meeting…
At the Free Church General Assembly of 1859 the Moderator, Principal, William Cunningham, addressed Brownlow North on behalf of the Assembly saying, ‘Mr North, I have great pleasure and heartfelt satisfaction in announcing to you that I have been called,…
On the plane to Glasgow yesterday I enjoyed finishing off Robert Hall Sr.’s Help to Zion’s Travellers, edited by Nathan Finn (Borderstone Press, from Amazons US and UK). It is a volume developed from a sermon preached by Hall in…
Brownlow North – His life and Work’ by K Moody-Stuart was first published in 1876 and is one of those books that has got slightly lost over time. The Banner republished it with light editing in 1961 but I think it’s…
In a provocative article published on reformation21.org on July 2, Rick Phillips offered some thoughts on the meaning of Christian patriotism in an America that is changing rapidly. Phillips eschewed any identification of America with the kingdom of God, framing…
In a provocative article published on reformation21.org on July 2, Rick Phillips offered some thoughts on the meaning of Christian patriotism in an America that is changing rapidly. Phillips eschewed any identification of America with the kingdom of God, framing…
My good friend Benjamin Williamson has written ‘some thoughts on singleness’ which is very helpful indeed. Ben was one of my apprentices whom I schooled in grammar and spelling throughout his two years with us at IPC, however unlike myself…
Andrew Fuller wrote a series of “Letters to a Young Minister” in which he discoursed on the various aspects of pastoral labour, focusing on the preaching of sermons (which he distinguished in some ways from what he called “expositions”). Speaking…
When I first saw the article on polyamory to which Carl subsequently referred I was grieved by its tone of everday reportage, the normalisation of sin. It is no consolation to be tickled by the notion that Prof. Trueman was,…
