Over the Christmas holiday with my extended family, amid a full-blown but lovable circus of three to seven-year-olds that was rivaled only by the even louder football bowl game commentary emanating from the TV, the name of Stanley Fish came…
One of the Book of Church Order amendments making the rounds of PCA presbyteries this year is a proposed change to forbid the practice of intinction. For those not in the know, intinction is the procedure of receiving the Lord’s…
I have just begun to read through some early manuscripts of two new books coming out in the next two months from Reformation Heritage Books that I am quite excited about. The first is Encouragement for Today’s Pastors: Help from…
The following quote is from Benjamin Wadsworth’s introduction to The Gospel Ministry by Thomas Foxcroft: The right performance of this work [of gospel ministry] is attended with many and great difficulties, partly from the various, frequent, furious assaults of Satan;…
As promised, a first snippet from Thomas Foxcroft, who advises us as to the correct and necessary balance and relationship between public and private ministerial responsibility. He gives this specific counsel: Private inspection or pastoral visitation is of necessity to…
How Visible Should Christian Unity Be? John 17, Cardinal Kurt Koch and Martyn Lloyd-Jones in Trialogue The priestly prayer of the Lord Jesus in John 17 is unanimously recognized as one of the foundational texts, if not the text par…
How Visible Should Christian Unity Be? John 17, Cardinal Kurt Koch and Martyn Lloyd-Jones in Trialogue The priestly prayer of the Lord Jesus in John 17 is unanimously recognized as one of the foundational texts, if not the text par…
The apostle John had seen many wonderful things in his life. He had lived alongside the Christ for three years, testifying that if all the things that Jesus did “were written one by one, I suppose that even the world…
The Gospel MinistryThomas FoxcroftSoli Deo Gloria (RHB), 87pp, hbkISBN 978-1-56769-061-3 This unusual but highly profitable little volume is a preacher’s own ordination sermon. It was preached in 1717 by Thomas Foxcroft as he set out to demonstrate to the congregation…
In 1734, God used the preaching of Jonathan Edwards to launch the Great Awakening in Northampton, MA. Edwards would go on to be one of the most influential Christians in American history. We rightly think of this Awakening, like all…
