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Just a quick addition to Carl’s blog below on the McGowan volume. Dr. Gaffin will be reviewing Andy’s book in these columns in a few weeks. Watch this space.

No, that’s not the name of a dodgy legal firm.  Rather, four theologians who have reflected in significant ways on scripture.   What is interesting is that, in reading Andrew McGowan’s new volume from Apollos UK, The Divine Spiration of Scripture,…

OK, it was a bad day.  English rugby is not in need of revival but of resurrection. As the present Mrs T is a Gael to the top of her 4 foot 9 inch frame, it took her less than three…

Well, Derek Thomas and Hywel Jones must have been singing Cwm Rhondda as they listened to the Wales beat Ireland in Dublin (16-12) to win the Triple Crown and to set up for the Six Nations Grand Slam against the…

Having read the article to which Ligon links, regarding Pope Benedict and Martin Luther, it seems that the Luther they want to restore is really Erasmus.  The latter ranted against the moral and spiritual abuses of the Roman Catholic Church…

Maybe so.

. . . from church father Columbanus: “Let us all hasten to approach to perfect manhood, to the measure of the completed growth of the fulness of Jesus Christ, in Whom let us love one another, praise one another, correct…

The church planting committee at Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church was recently given some statistics that clarify the need for gospel work in our own United States.  With almost 200 million unchurched people, America is one of the world’s ten largest…

I’m not sure if Shai Linne was trying to capitalize on this year’s PCRT theme or not, but his new, Bible-based, Reformed, John Piper-approved hip-hop CD is entitled “The Atonement.”  Listeners should be prepared for a heavy dose of Romans. 

I just returned from the opening session of the 2008 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology in Sacramento, the theme of which is Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ.  It was a tremendous evening, with a hungry crowd at Immanuel…