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The great thing about this blog is that you get to learn new words. From dictionary.com: apotheosis means “model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal.” I typically abominate learning new words, but this one seems…

Over the past week I have had the opportunity to review advance proofs of the ESV Study Bible that is planned for publication in October of 2008.  Although I have not participated in this project, I have watched it unfold…

Yes, Derek got to meet his hero–he has stacks full of blues cds but won’t fess up to them.  Not only did I get to spend time with Derek, meet and hear B B King, I also got to have…

  It was surreal moment: Steve, country boy from Lancaster, PA meeting his blues-idol, B. B. King, from Indianola, Mississippi. The blues singer happened to be in Jackson this week and Steve “dragged” me to “get some culture.” The evening…

Given the attention to Jim Packer’s split with the Anglican Church of Canada, I wanted to draw some attention to one of his best writing projects, recently published in Scotland by Mentor under the title 18 Words: The Most Important…

Joel Beeke’s new book is out from Reformation Heritage Books: Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption. It’s a short, hardcover book, and the first substantive study on what the Puritans really believed about spiritual adoption. Here are a couple…

It is a sign of things to come, perhaps. Two evangelists in Britain were prevented from handing out tracts of Scripture by a Muslim community police-officer. They were accused of a hate-crime for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. the…

This past April, my wife and I had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of the Westminster Seminary California community as the Westminster Student Association Lecturer. We had a wonderful time and hopefully were able to contribute a bit. My…

Tony Reinke recently snapped some nice photos of Machen’s grave.