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In about an hour and some, it will be official. He will now be Dr. Keith Getty as he is receiving an honorary doctorate from my humble institution, Lancaster Bible College, at our commencement today at 2:00. This is one…

I’m reading God so loved, he gave by Kelly Kapic which I’ll write something on later but found this incredible quote from Melito of Sardis who I am sure you are all familiar with.   ”Asking his congregation who it…

Despite the very brief cameo in the T4G video, Piper not only played but actually carried our team on his offensive shoulders.  In the end, we took a beating, but our scrappy little guard gave a valiant effort with an…

In response to Levy, I can only comment that basketball is not a sport.  By definition, something cannot be a sport if (a) every time you get the ball you score and (b) it is played by Mark Dever.

I don’t want to bring up the whole celebrity conference speaker turf war again but my attention was drawn to the latest T4G conference video (the conference itself looks very good indeed). It’s a basketball game of the various speakers,…

Adrian Reynolds points us to the Rich book and my good friend David Gibson now tells me that the Rich brand is extending to a course that can be accessed here. Hopefully we’ll get videos and t shirts, even mugs of…

 J. Graham Miller was a minister, missionary and Theological College principal. A New Zealander by birth, he lived in Australia and the New Hebrides. The Banner of Truth have published his autobiography,  ‘A day’s march nearer home’ which is a…

Some readers of ref21 may know that Derek Thomas, the Editorial Director of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, who also serves at the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson and Minister…

Is Matthew 18:15-20 currently the most abused text in Scripture?  A ministerial colleague recently called my attention to a fine piece by D. A. Carson in Themelios entitled “Editorial on Abusing Mathew 18” here.  Carson makes at least two points…

Richard Perkins (the urban pastor not the puritan) points us to this  article from the Independent on Christians in finance and the place of workplace ministry. It’s a fascinating piece on the pressure Christians face in work.   Perks blog is…