I have just got hold of Iain Murray’s new biography of John MacArthur. It’s one of my holiday reads alongside ”Memoirs of a Fruitcake” (which, surprisingly, is not written by Carl Trueman). The other biography I am taking is ‘Blood and…
I’m working on the 175th anniversary history of the First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS, right now. Here is one little jewel that I came across. Elder C. H. Alexander, chairman of the local arrangements committee, was addressing the 1902 General…
In preparing for Sunday I got somehow distracted and found myself reading a Discussion Between Dr. E.V. Rieu and the Rev. J.B. Phillips Rieu translated Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad from the Greek for Penguin Books and they approached him to translate…
What Paul needs to answer his Lord’s Supper problem is the new iPastor app, available for download to smartphones and iPads. Here’s the sales pitch from the ad in this month’s Reformed Man Today: Embarrassed by meeting your pastor in…
A Christian is someone who has obeyed the gracious command of Jesus Christ, “Look to me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other” (Is 45.22). As one believing into…
Word of the Lord and/or Word of the Church? The Bible in a recent papal pronouncement [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow…
Word of the Lord and/or Word of the Church? The Bible in a recent papal pronouncement [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow…
I’ve never been to a multi site church, I’m not really sure what one is. In fact as I think about it apart from a couple of conferences I’ve never been in a congregation of over a 1000 people. I think I…
I’m relearning the Westminster Shorter Catechism. How on earth people learnt the Heidelberg is beyond me. It may be warmer but give me the Westminster any day. It’s built for speed and memorability! Alongside I’m reading through Thomas Watson ‘A…
Clearly, Levy is a man of poor discernment (see the video tour of his library below). But now that I am on the topic of libraries, my recent move has required that I re-shelve my books. It is surprising what…
