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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
You may be interested in the re-launched and re-designed website of my own denomination, the Free Church of Scotland. Click here.
“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…
I have been using Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening readings more or less for the past thirty years, and they never fail to amaze me with their pastoral insight and their constant relevance. Having been thinking recently of the number of…
The first week of September (!) I received my first piece of Christmas mail: a holiday subscription offer from Time magazine. This week I received a similar offer from Christianity Today. That’s evangelical Christianity for you: a couple of weeks…
