Back in October, I mentioned here that Chile had just established October 31 as a national holiday celebrating the Reformation. I asked for folks to write in if they had more information. I received emails from a number of readers,…
Though it’s an American holiday, there is something to being reminded to be thankful. Here are some reasons from Psalm 111. ESV, of course. 1 Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,in…
And one more book from my friends at Crossway (referencing back to my ETS books post). I picked up J I Packer’s Affirming the Apostle’s Creed, which is taken from his Growing in Christ. Crossway has also published Praying the…
This past week I was up in Rhode Island at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. In between attending a few great papers and bumping into people, I also had a chance to pick up a few books. …
A couple of interesting news items have arrived on the desk of Trotter News International, the world’s premier non-Murdoch-owned news outlet, courtesy of Britain’s Daily Torygraph. First, brother Del looks set to make a financial killing in the sale of…
The New Testament refers to the return of Christ on some 300 occasions, so it is not something we can easily ignore or simply sideline in our understanding of the Faith. Yet, it is an aspect of the Bible’s teaching…
This past week, I received a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of John Stott’s widely acclaimed best-seller, Basic Christianity. I first read this book in December 1971 as a thoroughly agnostic non-church-going freshman at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.…
John Reed Miller Lecture Series: Part One I don’t want to begin this lecture by spiritualizing a text but…the Old Testament is good bit like Jephthah the Gileadite in Judges 11:1-3. His brothers so much as booted him out of…
Reformed Theology has arguably had a humble revival in recent years. Who would have thought that the Reformed “mega-church’ in Seattle, (I’m thinking of Mars Hill) would have reformed works found on the shelves of Wal Mart supermarkets? I’m thinking…
Read it here. This should be pretty unsettling for anti-institutional pomo types. But I’d really love to know what our resident Marxist Historian thinks about the “Hunter Thesis.”
