After a brief hiatus — okay, it has been eight months — I return to Dr. Ridding’s litany for pastors: “From weariness in continuing struggles, from despondency in failure and disappointment, from over-burdened sense of unworthiness, from morbid fancies of…
For an answer, see David VanDrunen’s new book.
So now what do we do without a Calvin birthday conference? I did think of one anniversary we could celebrate. This is, after all the 400th birthday of the Remonstrance. Think about it. Without those five points of the Remonstrance, we…
Thankful that my friend, Dr. George Robertson, senior minister at The First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, is in the blogosphere. And very thankful that he posted this great story from Hudson Amerding, late president of Wheaton College.
Starting Monday, and every weekday thereafter during 2010, Ref21 will inlcude a brief devotional blog based on a reading from McCheyne’s famous calendar. Check the front page on Monday for the link (it should appear on the left hand side in…
A happy and blessed 2010 from Bonnie Scotland. I have been dipping again into Pilgrim’s Progress, and was very moved by the passage in which Bunyan describes Christian being entertained in the Palace Beautiful, situated between Hill Difficulty and the…
Here’s a great quote from Marilynne Robinson’s essay on “Puritans and Prigs” in The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (p. 153): “The way we speak and think of the Puritans seems to me a serviceable model for important…
I wasn’t born and raised in the Reformed church. In other words, I am a Reformed immigrant. Like many people in the Reformed church today, I migrated out of broad based evangelicalism and non-denominationalism. Many of my friends, both ministers…
I wasn’t born and raised in the Reformed church. In other words, I am a Reformed immigrant. Like many people in the Reformed church today, I migrated out of broad based evangelicalism and non-denominationalism. Many of my friends, both ministers…
As always, I was deeply blessed by special services of worship celebrating the birth (and life and death and resurrection) of Jesus the Christ. Of particular joy and comfort this year were the following verse from Paul Gerhardt (one of the…
