Category Reformation21

Last week I went to the local chicken shop. It’s not the premier brand of chicken shopand is run by some of the most unhygienic men in the UK. The owners, however, are very friendly and they were very excited…

The famous Welsh preacher, Christmas Evans, once vividly described what he imagined Satan would look like if he came to church: The way in which a man hears the Gospel is an index to the state of his heart and…

The answer is yes! Baptists historically have held to covenant theology; the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith makes this fact plain (see chapter 7). More recently however, Reformed Baptist pastor Greg Nichols answers this question in the affirmative as he masterfully expounds the…

Despite the temptation to rise to Dr Trueman’s bait – I can only assume that the man who wrote a book called Histories and Fallacies had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he whiffled out that tosh about Baptists…

The Ref 21 switchboard is jammed with calls ”when do we get the Carl Trueman’s video with Jim Packer?” the people are asking and so I googled Carl Trueman videos and noticed stylistically there’s been lots of changes in my good…

Recently I read a helpful and challenging new book by Dr. Joel Beeke and James La Belle entitled Living Zealously. I highly recommend this volume, which draws from the writings of several Puritans on the subject of zeal and is…

We are in the full flush of a church planting frenzy here in the UK. It’s a great thing that so many gospel churches have been planted in the last 10 years and over that we rejoice. There’s no doubt…

This morning while I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the work of ministry for this week, I “happened” to grab Richard Baxter’s book entitled The Reformed Pastor and was encouraged when I read the following words,   Is…