Not a Bad Book Day
Today was a good book day. I received three books, all on the subject of marriage. First, was Michael Haykin’s The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers. I tried to get a copy…
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Sermons from Eric Alexander. . .
. . . are now available on the Internet. This is very good news, indeed. With his customary humility, Rev. Alexander has been somewhat reticent to broadcast his sermons more widely than his own former church (St. George’s Tron, Glasgow) or…
A Prayer for Pastors, Part 6
From weakness of judgment, from the indecision that can make no choice, and the irresolution that carries no choice into act, strengthen our eye to see and our will to choose the right; and from losing opportunities and perplexing our…
Fujimura Comes to Philadelphia
Makoto Fujimura has opened a solo exhibit entitled “Olana-Psalms of Ascent” at Philadelphia’s White Stone Gallery (in Manayunk). The exhibit features new devotional works that have not previously been displayed in public. There is a public reception this Friday, April…
The Day after Easter
Easter is over. The new clothes are hung up, the candy has been eaten, and choir directors and pastors everywhere–not to mention ushers–are enjoying the quiet routines of a Monday. For the diehard Reformed, you know who you are, this…
Resurrection — Empty Tomb Theology
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away but when they entered, they did not find the…
Reflections on Sacred Rhetoric
‘The ratio of grind to glamour is three to one’. This was an off-the-cuff remark made recently on a UK television documentary on the topic of oratory. Taking January’s Presidential inauguration in Washington as its cue, the programme traced the…
Flavel’s Prayer on the Great Exchange
John Flavel: Lord, the condemnation was yours,that the justification might be mine. The agony was yours,that the victory might be mine. The pain was yours,and the ease mine. The stripes were yours,and the healing balm issuing from them mine. The…
Working Over or Sitting Under the Word
Derek, I too am preaching through 1 Samuel. In fact, I was up late last night reading probably the very same commentaries you are reading. I also find that if you want doctrinal insights and applications, you need to look…
Trueman reviews Wells’ Courage to be Protestant
Carl Trueman reviews David Wells’ The Courage to be Protestant in the latest edition of the The Ordained Servant (denominational magazine of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) here. We saw it coming, of course: Wells’ on “consumerism” and its linkage to…