Carl’s bang on the money
The last time Carl stayed here I was looking through his ipod and saw on his favourites….. Money for nothing – Dire Straits Money Money Money – Abba Money can’t buy me love – Beatles Opportunities (let’s make lots…
Category Reformation21
On Being a False Teacher
his year’s Christmas season was a mixture of highs and lows. The highs: England cricketers retaining the Ashes in Australia (if you are American, you probably will not understand the remarkable nature of that statement – indeed, to offer a…
Coming to America!
Alistair Begg, Sinclair Ferguson, Derek Thomas, Jerram Barrs, Carl Trueman, Paul Gardner, Mark Johnston, Bill Hughes, Josh Moody and now Liam Goligher. The list could go on……. On the 5th January 1989 the South Wales Evening Post arrived in the afternoon. I…
Christmas Preaching
Christmas Day and Boxing Day sermons to preach and another Christmas is done. This will be my eighth at IPC and I’m officially out of jokes and illustrations. The tank is empty, the screen is blank, there’s no juice left…
Leo Tolstoy and the Real Meaning of Christmas
Maybe you have seen this before, but I just came across it. This is Leo Tolstoy’s take on Jesus, pitting the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount vs. the Jesus of the Creeds, namely the Nicene Creed, and of…
Glad ministerial pay has advanced beyond this…
From Lyman Beecher’s Autobiography, p. 67: “East Hampton was originally settled by the best sort of men, and had never been divided in religion. There was only one church in place, over which three successive pastors had been settled during…
Apologies and Kuyper on the incarnation
In response to Carl and Jeremy First of all sincerest apologies to my American friends (all 3 of them) for misplacing Jackson, unforgivable really. For the two readers who’ve anonymously sent me ‘Improve your punctuation and grammar’ and ‘Essential English’, perhaps an…
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
I’m going to ignore the irreverent reference to my ‘blond’ period below – though I was sure I had destroyed all those old videos…! On re-vewing them I notice they haven’t aged well. On another subject altogether, it’s easy to…
Welshmen in glass houses….
Mr Levy should be careful about criticising the Ref21 establishment for dress sense and camera presence. A careful search of the internet had revealed some early footage of Liam Goligher in his ‘blond’ period, introducing the then ACE house…
I wish it could be Christmas everyday
From the Reformation 21 video………………. ‘What does Christmas mean to you?’ said Derek Thomas ‘The older I get the more difficult it is to get comfortable with Christmas’ replied a youthful Jeremy Smith A couple of comments Firstly, I’ve watched 2 or 3 of…