Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day ‘Tis since thou art fled away. P. B. Shelley So wrote the poet, Shelley, suggesting that…
Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day ‘Tis since thou art fled away. P. B. Shelley So wrote the poet, Shelley, suggesting that…
For those who may be in the New England area this weekend (May 4th and 5th), Paul Washer will be preaching at the Southern New England Reformation Conference being held at the church I pastor in North Providence, Rhode Island.…
My good friend Doug Sweeney at TEDS has just posted a very thoughtful piece about the future of seminary education on The Gospel Coalition website. Sweeney makes some points that are consistent with observations that I offered on this site…
Thankfully, last night the NFL draft finally got underway. Since my team, the Indianapolis Colts, had the first pick–due to their awful season which itself was the result of Peyton Manning’s injury–I and other football fans didn’t have much suspense.…
It is not, perhaps, a locus classicus for the pastoral office, but Genesis 31.36-42 certainly gives us some impression of the liabilities and responsibilities of the shepherd as understood by the men who used that phrase of their protectors and…
We finished our previous discussion by noting that there were elements of formal truth that the Skepchick attributed to Richard Dawkins. Because the Skepchick was not able to account either for her own outrage, or Dawkins’ near-apathy toward the same,…
We finished our previous discussion by noting that there were elements of formal truth that the Skepchick attributed to Richard Dawkins. Because the Skepchick was not able to account either for her own outrage, or Dawkins’ near-apathy toward the same,…
Like many, you may be appalled at how often the Lord Jesus issues a command to those whom he has healed to keep silent about what has taken place and the command is immediately not just ignored but thoroughly trampled…
Recently the Westminster Larger Catechism’s treatment of the Ninth Commandment (particularly Q. 144) has become an issue in some conservative Presbyterian presbyteries. For example, last fall my own ARP presbytery voted to establish an ad hoc committee “to draft a…
