What John Knox did for Scotland is incalculable. By his fortitude, his integrity, and his passion for the gospel he forged a nation that loved the Bible, loved liberty, and influenced the world. For centuries after it was with pride…
‘A Planet inspired…’ so ran one of the headlines in a British newspaper today as the world it seems caught up in the joy of families reunited after the long ordeeal of the men traapped in the Chilean mine. ‘We…
From what we are able to glean from the sparse sources of the preaching of the Celtic missionaries, a general pattern emerges. They were energetic and selfless evangelists who sought nothing for themselves but to spend and be spent in…
Elsewhere in the blogosphere there has been considerable chatter about the issue of what it is to be ‘missional’ arising out of Kevin DeYoung’s excellent seminar at the Desiring God conference. He defined the mission of the church in these…
Now that B. B. Warfield’s theology is back on the scene with Fred Zaspel’s The Theology of B. B. Warfield: A Systematic Summary (Crossway), I thought I’d point out a few comments by the Lion of Princeton in his Collected Works on…
A Call to Add Church History to a Healthy Spiritual Diet Many of us may struggle with the feeling that the church is already too old-fashioned. If so, why should we study church history? Shouldn’t we stop looking backward to…
A Call to Add Church History to a Healthy Spiritual Diet Many of us may struggle with the feeling that the church is already too old-fashioned. If so, why should we study church history? Shouldn’t we stop looking backward…
I’ve been doing some work on Communion with God and found these articles hidden away in the archive vaults of the OPC website. Craig Troxel is the minister of Bethel OPC , Wheaton and they are fantastic introductions. Communion with the Triune…
Here’s a video of Carl and I boxing which was taken a few years back. Carl has shed a few pounds since then, though he’s not grown much. Admittedly he is academically more gifted than I but I think you’ll…
Today I’ve been working on a lecture I’m due to give in Cambridge next Monday commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Dairmid MacCulloch of Oxford University calls the Scottish Reformation the most successful of all the reformations of the period.…
