A Cautionary Note [Editor’s Note] This is in response to an article published under the name of Michael Haykin. To clarify, Dr. Haykin was the article’s editor and not its author. Michael Haykin’s recent piece on the possibilities for Reformed publishing…
Basic Advice on How to Interpret Luther Before addressing a particular element of Rob Bell’s new book, I want to make sure that anyone reading this understands exactly what I am and am not doing. First, to avoid the usual…
Basic Advice on How to Interpret Luther Before addressing a particular element of Rob Bell’s new book, I want to make sure that anyone reading this understands exactly what I am and am not doing. First, to avoid the usual…
Well, Mrs Trotter and myself have been most astonished at the, umm, astonishment that Rob Bell has apparently come out as a universalist. Indeed, the fact that Zondervan has now apparently broken ties with the chap shows what a stunning…
Just yesterday someone told me of a sincere and well-meaning Christian family who forbid their children from reading Harry Potter books and who buy them Rob Bell’s Nooma Videos to watch instead. What is particularly galling about that is that…
Todd Pruitt has spotted ref21’s favourite cutting-edge pastor setting the world to rights again. Yes, `the thinking man’s Paul Levy’ has decided that he hates haters — which leaves him with something of an aesthetic/moral paradox, I guess. Great suit,…
I probably should begin this post by establishing my “traditional worship” bona fides. My tastes in worship are decidedly traditional–my wife and I attend a church with a pipe organ where the organ is used . . . every Sunday…
While the internet has rocked with information about a prominent minister who has denied the reality of hell, being more historically minded, I couldn’t help but think about David Swing. Most people don’t know who David Swing was–but in the…
In light of Prof. von Hoffman’s stunning (but all too familiar) revisionist historiography, I thought it might be helpful to highlight an argument for the inerrancy of Scripture that I had not heard until Warfield–who else?–brought it to my attention:…
An Opportunity for Reformed Christians [1] One of the more remarkable facts about the history of the church is that some of its most significant events were barely noticed at the time of their occurrence. Examples are not hard…
