Category Reformation21

“True faith acts on supernatural facts and gets supernatural results” — Donald Grey Barnhouse.

Hope to see you there, along with Al, Rick, Steve and Phil. And, btw, registration for T4G opens on May 1.

“From infirmity of purpose, from want of earnest care and interest, from the sluggishness of indolence, and the slackness of indifference, and from all spiritual deadness of heart;      Save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord.”

“Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.” — Thomas Carlyle. For comparison, see 1 Corinthians 13:5; 2 Timothy 3:2; etc.

Late last week my friends at The Happening brought to my attention the recent disgraceful post by the notorious Dean of Mean at Westminster Theological (sic) Seminary in Philadelphia (secretly filmed here at a recent Academic Affairs/student town hall meeting). …

Just a quick note in a shameless act of sycophancy to point you to Guy Waters’ article inThe Law is Not of Faith, edited by Bryan Estelle, J. V. Fesko and David Van Drunen (P & R, 2009) on the…

Two very significant items passed across my desk in the last few days. The first is a new book by Tom Lennie, published by Christian Focus Publications, entitled Glory in the Glen. It is one of the best written studies…

Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve never been in a massage parlour. I associate it with “things a member in good standing in a Presbyterian Church doesn’t do.” But this past week I received a note in my church mail-box suggesting…

Lee Gatiss and Stephen Walton brought the following email from Amazon to my attention.  Speaks for itself.  Those confused by the connection should realise that John Owen, in addition to being the greatest Puritan theologian of his day, was also…

Derek has to be going to get his well-thumbed-through copy of The Shack signed.  Yes, William P. Young himself will be at Lemuria Bookstore, a great independent bookstore in Jackson, Miss, tomorrow April 16 at 11:00 am.  So, Derek, are…