A Review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant Publications, 2012). With the exception of Augustine’s Confessions, I am not a big fan of Christian testimonies and autobiographies. Generally, they exhibit one of…
“Why was I made to hear Thy voice, And enter while there’s room,When thousands make a wretched choice,And rather starve than come?” So asked William Cowper. And so might each child of God ask, with a thousand more questions besides.…
For those who may not know, the fourth annual Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary Conference will be held August 23-25 at Calvin Prince Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year the theme is “The Beauty and Glory of the Father.” Here are the…
How would you close a sermon? How would you bring to an end a sermon in which you were pleading for sinners to receive God’s great pardon for sin? Here is an example from Spurgeon, preaching from Psalm 25.11 (“Pardon…
I return from a welcome holiday (during which the growing murmur of delight at the prospect that I might have been banished, or for some other reason no longer be contributing here, was becoming distinctly audible) to find that life…
Why do People Leave the Catholic Church? Journeys of Faith is the title of a recent book which contains a number of biographical narratives about people in the US context who have changed their Christian allegiance from one church or…
Why do People Leave the Catholic Church? Journeys of Faith is the title of a recent book which contains a number of biographical narratives about people in the US context who have changed their Christian allegiance from one church or…
I was back in my pulpit yesterday after a relatively short Summer break. Our Summer was not the one we had planned. Our eldest son was due to get married on July 25th, and three days before the event it…
One of the joys of Fridays in the UK is 5 minutes with…. on the BBC website. Someone of some relative interest is given a 5 minute interview by Matthew Stadlen, this week columnist Peter Hitchens is interviewed, Hitchens is…
I’m so grateful for my friend Carl’s reply. It appears, perhaps, that I was a bit too subtle in the single point that I was trying to contribute, so I thought that I might take another run at it more…
