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…
I have enjoyed the exchange between my fellow church historians (and pastors) Carl Trueman and Michael Haykin on spiritual formation and seminaries. I wanted to make one brief observation on the exchange and it centers on what seminaries are for…
In April 2010 Martin Salter wrote an article in Themelios ”Does Baptism Replace Circumcision? An Examination of the Relationship between Circumcision and Baptism in Colossians 2:11-12” . At the Carey Conference in January 2012 Salter gave a similar paper (see…
On Friday night CRT was installed as pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church. Derek Thomas preached, you can hear the charge to the congregation and the to the pastor plus the sermon here. There’s a great photo of the men involved…
I’ve been on holiday and August is always a lighter month, so I’m catching up on some reading over the next while. For all the ”take 20 minutes in the morning, afternoon and evening”, finding time to read is hard…
I’ve really enjoyed James M.Kittelson’s ”Luther the Reformer” which sadly is out of print in the UK. In it he gives Luther’s 8 rules for preachers (page 249/250) ”First , a good preacher should be able to teach well,…
