Free Church of Scotland Moderator
The Free Church of Scotland has announced that Rev David Meredith, minister of Smithton-Culloden Free Church, is to be the Moderator of the 2010 General Assembly. More details here.
Category Reformation21
Celebrating the Death of Meaning
It has been a good couple of months for the celebrating of life at memorial services. First, there was the celebration of Michael Jackson’s life and then there was Ted Kennedy, enfant terrible turned elder statesman. Both men, in their…
Celebrating the Death of Meaning
It has been a good couple of months for the celebrating of life at memorial services. First, there was the celebration of Michael Jackson’s life and then there was Ted Kennedy, enfant terrible turned elder statesman. Both men, in their…
Celebrating the Death of Meaning
It has been a good couple of months for the celebrating of life at memorial services. First, there was the celebration of Michael Jackson’s life and then there was Ted Kennedy, enfant terrible turned elder statesman. Both men, in their…
Tim Keller’s Review of Willow Creek: What About Gospel Clarity?
Our poor friend Tim Keller suffers the fate of having his every word parsed over a thousand times, which is the inevitable result of the vast influence his every word exerts over the Neo-Evangelical, Young, Restless, and Reformed. For this…
Trinity and Salvation
In my sermon on John 14:16-17 last week, I introduced the important topic of the Holy Spirit as the “other Paraklete”. I talked at some length about how the Spirit carries forward Christ’s work as the Spirit Anointed Messiah in…
Will a Loving God Condemn People to Hell?
It is a question that came my way recently: will God really condemn good people to hell? And the answer is yes. However, we need to approach the answer with some deliberate sensitivity. First, we need to assert three inviolable…
Of Dogs and Churches
Derek’s post really got me thinking . . . about dogs. Just kidding. He got me thinking about loving the church. My memories are the same as Derek’s but have a different starting point. They go way back past when I was 17. …
New Free Church website
You may be interested in the re-launched and re-designed website of my own denomination, the Free Church of Scotland. Click here.
Falling in Love with the Church — again
“Love me, love my dog,” they say, and my poor dog has been sick all summer and continues to be in bad shape. But it is not dogs I am writing about here; it is the church. Jesus seems to…