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…
Writing in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, David Wells explains what our church and our culture need: “The renewal of which we stand in need, I believe, is of both the understanding of truth and of our knowledge…
The latest edition of the 9Marks journal is on marriage and the church. Note especially the marriage comparison chart with mini-reviews of a number of books.
I have a bad habit: I keep adding books to my growing pile beside my bed. This morning, I finished a book that wasn’t on this list: Christian Scharen’s Faith as a Way of Life. Originating out of Yale’s Center…
