gathering a core or stealing the sheep?
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…
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The joys of serving Christ and His Church
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…
A Wonderful Weekend with Washer
For those who may be interested, here is a link to the sermons that Paul Washer preached at our Southern New England Reformation Conference. The Holy Spirit was pleased to own our brother’s preaching with much power and boldness. Truly, I can…
The beauty of concealed scholarship
Wilhelmus à Brakel offers some good advice to the gospel minister: He ought to use all his scholarship to formulate the matters to be presented, in order that he might express them in the clearest and most powerful manner. While…
Can the New Testament Canon be Defended? Derek Thomas Interviews Michael Kruger
Derek Thomas: I often tell my students when lecturing on the doctrine of Scripture that the toughest questions to answer relate to the canon. With recent criticisms of the canon by Bart Ehrman and others, what made you take on…
Can the New Testament Canon be Defended? Derek Thomas Interviews Michael Kruger
Derek Thomas: I often tell my students when lecturing on the doctrine of Scripture that the toughest questions to answer relate to the canon. With recent criticisms of the canon by Bart Ehrman and others, what made you take on…
The rebel and the king
Consider the man born into a family of terrorists. The man’s father had rebelled against the King of the kingdom in which he lived, and – having so rebelled – all his posterity were brought up to hate and fight…
The long shadow of sin
Frans Bakker in his book ‘Praying Always‘ reflects on David and Bathsheba and states, ‘The Lord sometimes causes the consequences of sin to remain, even though forgiveness has been granted. Thus he keeps his people humble. A bitter aftertaste is…
PCRT Podcast
Our friends at Christ the Center captured some of this year’s PCRT with this interview. Enjoy!
Guest Blog: The MPAA – Catering to Our Inner Pharisee
Editors’ Note: This post was written by John Perritt (M.Div; Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson), who is the Youth Pastor at Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church in Ridgeland, MS. In addition to his pastor duties, he is currently working on biblical counseling certificates…