The grocery store cereal aisle has become a common metaphor for distinguishing the West from the rest of the world, and rightly so. Just after we moved to Eastern Europe years ago, my family and I began the hunt for…
In recent weeks there has been a spate of arrests of Christian brothers in the UK involved in street preaching and other open-air witness. As someone who preaches in this way fairly regularly, this is obviously a matter of interest…
Reformation Heritage Books sent me this promotional video yesterday for the release of Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation by Beeke and Boekestein. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OkP8psAlkTk I posted information about this book back in July of this year.…
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
As part of our attempts to proclaim Christ in our small corner, we are investing some effort in a village near the town where I live. This village is, I think, fairly typical of our part of the world. It…
My friend Jason Delgado over at “The Confessing Baptist” blog has posted a series of sermons by Pastor Albert Martin on raising children which if you haven’t heard are well worth listening to. I can think of no better series on…
The name Harriet Beecher Stowe brings to mind an influential book in American history, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Whether President Lincoln’s comment when meeting the author is true or apocryphal, “You are the little lady that started this great war,” it…
Over the summer I read ‘Silent Witnesses – Lessons on theology, life, and the church from Christians in the past’ by Garry Williams. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and have found myself following up many of the issues Garry raises. Particularly helpful were the…
Whilst reading Rick Phillips’ ‘Masculine Mandate‘ (which by the way has the greatest study question I’ve ever seen on page 158 ‘Why can’t dogs really be man’s best friend?’) I found a very helpful illustration from the life of the Baptist FB Meyer:…
