At Union University they are sponsoring lectures throughout the year on the Psalms. The first lecture was by John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and professor of music and worship at Calvin College and Calvin Theological…
Our friends at “Christ the Center” have been discussing N. T. Wright’s new book (the response to John Piper) with Dr. Guy Waters. Listen to the broadcasts here.
I have just finished a series of 38 messages on Ezra/Nehemiah at First Pres, Jackson. Several things struck me as I brought the series to a close. The first was something most consecutive-expository preachers feel at the end of a…
Folks, we are more than capable of an error or two and those keen-eyed followers of our Calvin blog may have noticed a slight glitch in Iain D. Campbell’s ordering of the blogs on Monday/Tuesday. We missed one out and…
From a dear brother, William MacKenzie, on page 392 of the book Rich Gleanings from Rabbi Duncan (not our own Rabbi Duncan, the other one): It would not do to tell a man that he may come to Christ, but…
As I write, Thabiti is debating a Muslim on the subject “Who Is God and How Are We Saved?” The Muslim representative chose the topic! God is sovereign and gracious, isn’t he? I won’t disclose the location for obvious reasons. But…
From the Charlotte Observer: In a close vote that reflected deep division, Presbyterian church leaders representing the Charlotte area signaled their support Saturday for ending their denomination’s longstanding ban on gays and lesbians becoming pastors and elders. In past years,…
The 500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth has already produced some excellent material on Calvin (about which I’ve been blogging over at Creideamh). However, perhaps one of the most useful has been published by Christian Focus in the Trailblazers series, in…
I just received my copy of John Piper’s new book Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again? One of Piper’s reasons for making the biblical case for born-again Christianity is to guard the term against its misuse in…
Did I say that Christians trying to be trendy and do things like the U2charist was cringeworthy? Well, as Mrs Emma Peel has just pointed out, the U2charist website helpfully explains how to pronounce Bono (Baw-no, apparently, for those who…
