Effective Group Bible Study
It’s six o’clock Wednesday evening. Your church’s mid-week Bible study starts in one hour but you don’t feel like going. The trouble is, you can’t think of a fresh excuse and you don’t dare to say what you, (and several…
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Effective Group Bible Study
It’s six o’clock Wednesday evening. Your church’s mid-week Bible study starts in one hour but you don’t feel like going. The trouble is, you can’t think of a fresh excuse and you don’t dare to say what you, (and several…
What’s so special about preaching?
Following on from Dr Lucas’ post regarding preaching and lecturing, David Jackman has a great address from 2006 on ‘What’s so special about preaching?’ He writes… ”I wonder if we have so over-reacted to the mystical and the subjective-emotional in…
Miracle Max and Semipelagianism
There are few things worse than Christians over-analysing films and seeing ”the gospel” and ”redemption” all over the place when the actual director and writers had no intention of illustrating them. With that as a caveat, I venture to say that watching The Princess…
Terry Johnson’s Calendar(s) of Hymns and Psalms for Public Worship
Terry Johnson, the Senior Minister of the historic Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia, has for many years produced an annual calendar of hymns and psalms for the use of his congregation on the Lord’s Day. You will find a…
The Shorter Catechism’s time is still here
I’ve been bombarded with materials to help in learning the Shorter Catechism since my last post here It turns out there is a whole cottage industry for singing the CatechismSongs for Saplings – you can get them in the UK by going…
Books
More books emerge than I have time to keep up with, but our friend Rob Ventura can help us here with sample chapters from forthcoming titles from Reformed Heritage Press (see his blog, ). I’ve just finished reading Peter Enns’ new…
The difference between a lecture and a sermon
I just finished writing my Sunday sermon on 1 Samuel 18. A few weeks ago, I began working through the life of David, beginning in 1 Samuel 16 and extending to the end of 2 Samuel. As I have it…
What Goes Up Must Have Come Down
Recent online debates over the proper pastoral use of biblical commands in the lives of believers have left me a bit bewildered. Apparently, some would see these commands merely as descriptions of the Christian’s deficiencies, the spiritual equivalent of a…
Always Ready
Editor’s Note: We are excited to welcome Dr. K. Scott Oliphint to the reformation21 blog. Dr. Oliphint is the professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous books, including his…