At last, somebody has had the courageous and brilliant insight that the Emerging Church conversation is just that — an endless conversation. You can read all about it here and even join the conversation!! My only criticism is that the…
In my new role as Twittfinder General, I was shocked when Derek Thomas confessed during his ordeal by water that he has been dabbling in the Dark Arts for some months now. But, the man pleaded in mitigation, he has…
Looks like Scott Oliphint, holder of the newly endowed Jackie Chan Chair of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, has sold out and gone over to Twitter; but those looking for the expected Oliphint tweet fare of the ” Told @chuck_norris…
Is someone willing to sign my petition to stop Christians from producing petitions. A petition to support marriage, a petition against gay marriage, a petition to ask liberals to stop being mean to us, a petition to say we…
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…
