Category Reformation21

In addition to what Sean Lucas has written, there are several other points worth making about Michael Spencer’s article Tuesday in the Christian Science Monitor:

For Calvin’s 500th anniversary, you are all set: guided by the Calvin blog on Ref 21, just read daily selections of the Institutes.  But what will you do in 2010, for Calvin’s 501st anniversary? Here’s a suggestion: read Joel Beeke’s latest…

“O Lord, open thou our minds to see ourselves as thou seest us, or even as others see us and we see others; and from all unwillingness to know our infirmities;      Save us and help us, we humbly beseech…

  Two new books worth noting: the first, Sinclair Ferguson and Mark Dever write fascinating articles on the theme of puritan preaching, drawing from the instruction offered in Westminster Dircetory for Public Worship (1645). Westminster Directory of Public Worship Discussedby…

Congratulations are in order to our very own Sean Lucas and to D.G. Hart and to John Muether, editors and author respectively of the Cornelius Van Til volume in the American Reformed Biography series by P&R.  Richard Mouw has a…

This was a fasincating opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor (I was referred to it from my facebook homepage; how do you like that, Carl?). The writer essentially argues that because evangelicals have linked themselves to the culture war…

Typically Bishop Ridding introduced his litany with words like these: “Seeing, brethren, that we are weak men but entrusted with a great office, and that we cannot but be liable to hinder the work entrusted to us by our infirmities…

A friend has shared with me a litany, or formal order for prayer, written by Dr. George Ridding, the first Bishop of Southwell.  The litany was designed for use at meetings of the clergy it was his privilege to supervise…