Category Reformation21

r21_arthead

Alistair Begg’s Summer Reading

I asked our good friend Alistair Begg what he was reading this summer:   1. “Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics” by Graeme Goldsworthy. This is Goldsworthy at his comprehensive best. A terrific help in not missing the wood for the trees in exegesis…

r21_arthead

David Wells: The Church in the Matrix

Tullian Tchividjian passed along some info about the new documentary being developed around David Wells’s book, The Courage to Be Protestant. The project is called The Church in the Matrix: The American Evangelical church met the culture….and the culture won.…

r21_arthead

The “Good” in “Good News”

From Jonathan Edwards, “God Glorified in the Work of Redemption,” in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-5: The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great…

r21_arthead

The Woman with the Measuring Line

I was alerted by Scott Clark’s blog to a year-old article by Sally Morgenthaler in which she declares the worship-evangelism mega-church experiment, of which she was such a proponent, to be a failure.  After a generation of seeker-sensitive consumer-driven worship,…

r21_arthead

Packer Interview, Post-GAFCON

J. I. Packer was interviewed at All Souls regarding GAFCON. You can read the entire transcript here. Asked to summarize his counsel to them, Packer–who has frequently reminded us that he’s Packer by name, packer by nature–said, “Keep the faith,…

r21_arthead

Does Proverbs Speak of Jesus?

During my seminary days I was overly enamored with Biblical Theology and Redemptive-Historical interpretation.  While I continue to appreciate and employ the significant insights of these interpretive approaches to Scripture, I now realize that I went a bit overboard in…

r21_arthead

Nicodemus: When Knowing The Bible Isn’t Enough

Nicodemus was Jerusalem’s most outstanding Bible teacher and a member of the Jewish Ruling Council. Only the High Priest gained more recognition in the capital city than Nicodemus. Yet, despite all his learning and privileges, he did not know God.…

r21_arthead

I believe in the new perspective…

We had a special service in our church this evening.   The traditions of Scottish Highland evangelical piety in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to the ‘Question’ meeting. This was a meeting in which the laymen of the…