Greetings from Uganda
This is a message from the campus of African Bible University, Uganda, where I am spending a week with my son, Stephen. Along with Rev Burk Parsons of St Andrews Chapel, Florida, editor of Tabletalk, we are involved in the…
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Polish Catholic Priests stealing sermons
The 28,000 Polish Catholic priests have been reprimanded by Father Wieslaw Przyczyna for plagiarising sermons off the internet. See the story here in Saturday’s Guardian newspaper. Rumour has it that some have been downloading Trueman’s sermons from the web. Can we…
Hymn of the Century
This past weekend we had Keith and Kristyn Getty at the college for a concert. I know it’s quite early in the century, but I will put what’s left of my reputation as a church historian on the line in…
Ministries, Old and New
Reading John Wyclif `On the Pastoral office’ with a ThM class this morning, I was struck by how he fulminated against the fact that clergy in his day only wanted to minister at big, lucrative, socially prestigious churches. Imagine my…
And speaking of Newman . . . (David F. Wells on us)
“It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today’s context.” Why? Wells answers: “The truths of historic Protestantism are sometimes…
Goin’ Country
In his interview with Derek Thomas, Sean Lucas confessed to being a fan of country music. Since he’s given the genre his imprimatur, I’ll ‘fess up, too. I, however, came to country music rather recently, when I met Tom Douglas…
Adult Sunday School Material
If you are looking for adult Sunday School material, written from a “means of grace”, confessional point of view, I am enthusiastically suggesting that you take a look at the material being produced by the ARPs (Associate Reformed Presbyterian): The…
Is Inerrancy Unbiblical, Rationalistic and Presumptuous? A critique of A.T.B. McGowan’s proposal for evangelicals to reject inerrancy
A. T. B. McGowan’s major item for evangelicals to reconsider, in his book The Divine Spiration of Scripture: Challenging evangelical perspectives, concerns the termination of inerrancy. Not only does he argue for the use of the word infallibility in place…
Advice for Sabbath-keeping
Having preached a sermon that touched in part on the Christian Sabbath (the text was John 5:9-18), I followed it up with a pastor’s letter that gave advice to those learning to keep the Sabbath. I though it might be…
Here Am I
With apologies to Isaiah and Dick Cheney, I have emerged from my undisclosed location to offer my first post. Unlike my companions on this website, I am an utter novice at this. I read Wendell Berry, live next to Amish,…