Upcoming conference
It was suggested that I might wish to draw your attention to an upcoming conference to be held in Louisville in a few weeks time. It’s an awesome new conference called Death March 2013, and we will be rocking some…
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Vatican Files no. 20
“The Word of God Precedes and Exceeds the Bible:” Pope Francis on Scripture and the Church After a couple of eventful months surrounding the Vatican, the time has come to shift into a more routine mood. Pope Francis has attracted…
Vatican Files no. 20
“The Word of God Precedes and Exceeds the Bible:” Pope Francis on Scripture and the Church After a couple of eventful months surrounding the Vatican, the time has come to shift into a more routine mood. Pope Francis has attracted…
Bits and Bobs
Bits and Bobs Tim Ward has recently been appointed to teach at Cornhill and has written the excellent ”Words of Life”, the Gospel Partnership website has 4 audio sessions Tim has given on the Doctrine of Scripture God…
Small town…big news
Yes, you heard it here first: Stornoway black pudding is now a protected delicacy, right up there with champagne and cornish pasties, apparently. You can read about it in our national newspaper, the Stornoway Gazette, although an unfortunate typo has…
Catching up
It seems that apologies for absence are de rigeur on Reformation21 at the moment. I am not sure whether I should follow suit, because nasturtiums have been cast against me. First of all, I was not in the seventeenth century…
A Blessed Weekend
This past weekend the church that I pastor held its third annual Southern New England Reformation Conference with guest speaker Dr. Joel Beeke. The Lord was with us in a powerful way as Dr. Beeke expounded the vital subject of…
Michael Kruger Reviews Rob Bell
New Testament scholar par excellence Dr. Michael Kruger reviews Rob Bell’s latest book here. If the words “shooting fish in a barrel” come to mind, the reader would be correct! All kidding aside, Kruger is spot-on, careful, and, as always,…
Letter from a 10 year old
I found this letter in David Calhoun’s magisterial 2 volume biography of Princeton Seminary. It’s the kind of book to turn to when you’re slightly miserable. Calhoun writes.. ‘The children were Dr Hodge’s pride and joy. ”His study had two…
Crossing the Chasm
Last month we began to consider the mode of “persuasion” as a central aspect of our defense of Christianity. We ended our previous article with the affirmation that the Word of God must be our foundation in apologetics. That’s where…