Pray for Joni
Be in prayer today for our friend Joni Eareckson Tada–a true trophy of God’s grace–who is undergoing breast cancer surgery this afternoon. Here is a message from her.
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Summer Reading
We are fixing to take some time away for vacation after the PCA General Assembly. Beyond wandering around the mountains of Western North Carolina, one of the things to which I look forward is doing some summer reading. Here’s what…
Wilhelmus à Brakel
Ref21 readers may be interested to know that the The Christian’s Reasonable Service (4 Vols) by Wilhelmus à Brakel is available for download in pdf format (terrific for the Ipad!) from the translator’s (Bart Elshout) web page here. On the published…
The spirit and practice of Sabbath keeping
We had an excellent meeting in Stornoway last night at which Ian Hamilton spoke on ‘the spirit and practice of Sabbath keeping’. I’m not sure why the confessional position of the first day of the week being the Christian Sabbath…
In Memoriam, James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000)
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…
In Memoriam, James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000)
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…
Consider how you listen
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…
Liking, Lusting, Loathing
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…
Review of ‘Doctrine’
You may be interested in my review of Mark Driscoll’s book on theology over at my blog here.
Preaching to People?
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…