Category Reformation21

r21_arthead

The joys of Presbytery

The last few weeks have been somewhat frantic, hence my lack of blogging output. As you can imagine the Ref 21 inbox is going crazy, ‘Where is Levy?’ they ask. It’s one of the most popular requests behind ‘Where can…

r21_arthead

Whitefield’s “Sermons”

A quick note: Lee Gatiss has edited George Whitefield’s Sermons in two volumes for Crossway. The two hardbound volumes are available from Amazon for £37.79 at the moment, but the whole shebang is available in a Kindle edition for only…

r21_arthead

Vatican Files no.14

Not an Anti-Pope but an Ante-Pope: Cardinal Martini (1927-2012) and the Dynamics of Present-day Roman Catholicism The recent death of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012) provides an opportunity to reflect on wider Roman Catholic trends. He has been one of…

r21_arthead

Vatican Files no.14

Not an Anti-Pope but an Ante-Pope: Cardinal Martini (1927-2012) and the Dynamics of Present-day Roman Catholicism The recent death of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012) provides an opportunity to reflect on wider Roman Catholic trends. He has been one of…

r21_arthead

Being Born Again

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind and a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings and new dislikings, new fears, new joys,…

r21_arthead

Well, what do you know…

In Col 3:10, the apostle Paul describes one of the most stunning aspects of the Spirit’s re-creative work in uniting us by faith to the risen Christ. In that verse, we read that the natural man is, by that Spirit,…

r21_arthead

Once you’ve hit gold……

This is one for high achievers who’ve won gold and then find there’s nowhere to go. I remember talking with Carl after T4G and him recounting the same…….. CRT – ” Levy, I’ve been on stage with the big four, done…

r21_arthead

The clown in the pulpit

The Scottish preacher and theologian Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon on “The necessity of the Spirit to give effect to the preaching of gospel,” declared: How little must the presence of God be felt in that place, where the high…

r21_arthead

Is this guy the new General Sedgwick?

There are tired sermon illustrations which we’ve all heard before and then there’s General Sedgewick! 3 times in 2011 we had guest preachers who began their sermons with his famous last words. The story goes if you don’t know it but…