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.…
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…
In the fall of 2006, Christianity Today’s Collin Hansen wrote an article which pointed to the fact that, for all of the hoo-hah about the Emerging/ent Church, there was a growing interest among young Christian people in America in traditional…
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,…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
The Presbyterian Layman reports that after first voting to remove “homosexual perversion” from the list of sins found in the Heidelberg Confession, the PC(USA) then approved a $2 million warchest to wage legal combat against the New Wineskins group (a…
Summer vacation (as well as a teaching trip to Regent College in Vancouver) begins next week. As I anticipate laying down many of the burdens of pastoral care, at least for a little while, here is a salutary reminder of…
