“O Lord, the way is hard and long”
L.M. (Angel’s Song) O Lord, the way is hard and longAnd fellow travellers are few;I am not wise, I am not strong,I fear I shall not make it through. On every side a sinking mire;Down every path a mocker’s glee;In…
Category Reformation21
No choices, just situations
Like Paul Levy, I have to confess to having been away from this blog for far too long. It’s as well there is no contractual obligation to write anything. But there is an ethical one, so I shall try to…
Christ is the end of the law
It’s been too long away from Ref 21, computer troubles, endless sermon preparation and last week I was away for a short preachers conference with other London ministers. It was a good time. Peter Adam on Revelation, Nigel Styles on…
Convicting & Challenging Words from Brooks
Oh that the Christian reader would seriously consider these twelve things: There is nothing that the great God hates–but sin. There is nothing that He has revealed His wrath from heaven against–but sin. There is nothing that crucifies the Lord of glory…
What If Life Was Complex?
This month, I thought I would use this column to indulge in a little thought experiment. What, I wonder, if the conservative evangelical church world came to be dominated by a symbiotic network of high-profile and charismatic leaders (think more…
What if Life Was Complex?
This month, I thought I would use this column to indulge in a little thought experiment. What, I wonder, if the conservative evangelical church world came to be dominated by a symbiotic network of high profile and charismatic leaders (think…
Vatican Files no. 19
Left Without Words: How Roman Catholicism is Reshaping the Evangelical Vocabulary “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of words” (Socrates). If you define a word in a certain way you make claims about reality. Our postmodern culture has stirred…
Vatican Files no. 19
Left Without Words: How Roman Catholicism is Reshaping the Evangelical Vocabulary “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of words” (Socrates). If you define a word in a certain way you make claims about reality. Our postmodern culture has stirred…
High Presbyterians and Prayer Meetings
In the curious world of Presbyterianism the people who bang on the most about being Reformed, Covenantal and Confessional rarely have prayer meetings in their congregation. I mean by that where the church corporately gathers to call on the name…
Plainness in preaching
The Word of God must be preached plainly and simply, not in allusions and doubtful terms, not in innuendoes and learned phrases; not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but in words which the Holy Ghost teacheth; not with the…