June 15 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of James Montgomery Boice, who was for thirty-two years the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, the dean of Reformed pastor-scholars in his generation, and my beloved pastor. The enduring…
June 15 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of James Montgomery Boice, who was for thirty-two years the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, the dean of Reformed pastor-scholars in his generation, and my beloved pastor. The enduring…
While I was preaching in Birmingham, England recently, a colleague passed on a little booklet of 32 pages by Christopher Ash entitled Listen Up!: A practical guide to listening to sermons. What a gem it is! While there are many…
Interesting article in the June 2010 Harvard Business Review. Prof. Uzma Khan and colleagues did a study in which they awarded a gift card to an electronics store to people who completed a word puzzle. Half the recipients earned the…
You may be interested in my review of Mark Driscoll’s book on theology over at my blog here.
Relatively early in my preaching career I had the opportunity to preach the opening sermon at a conference. The main conference speaker was a man that I consider to be one of the finest preachers of our times. After hearing…
I have been re-reading – and using as the basis of our midweek Prayer Meeting studies at the moment – John Flavel’s great work on ‘Keeping the Heart’. His meditations on Proverbs 4:23 were originally published under the title of…
In Ralph Erskine’s sermon “The Strength of Sin” (see Works, 5:145ff–thanks to Tony Reinke for the reference) he has a section on the difference between gospel mortification and legal mortification. You can read the whole thing here. Below is an…
It appears that ref21 went “down” yesterday and a message appeared suggesting liquidation, expiration and general nastiness. Rumors that Trotter’s blogs were the cause of it were only partially true. It does appear that the site was “hacked” (we were not…
It seems that my old sparring partner, CRT, has earned the ire of Scotland’s Free Presbyterians who, while essentially agreeing with much of his analysis of the Lloyd-Jones/Packer split, offer these words of commentary in their April magazine on our…
