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Engaging with Barth

A substantial new collection of essays on Karl Barth is due out in the UK this January: Engaging with Barth: Contemporary Evangelical Critiques, edited by David Gibson & Daniel Strange (Nottingham: Apollos, January 2008) ISBN: 978-1-84474-245-5. It includes contributions from…

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All Saints Day

Today is All Saints Day, the super-bowl Sunday of sacred relics in the Roman Catholic Church.  Not many people realize that this is the reason why Reformation Day is the same as Halloween (All Hallows Eve).  Luther was specifically protesting…

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Communion with the Triune God

Kelly Kapic and our own Justin Taylor have just edited John Owen’s classic work Communion with the Triune God.  It is everything that one can hope for in theology: Trinitarian, Gospel-centered, passionate, written by a prince among all theologians.  The…

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The Trueman Show

Carl Trueman was Al Mohler’s guest yesterday on Mohler’s radio show. Here’s a description: At least one prominent evangelical has suggested that the Reformation is “over” and it is time for Protestants and Roman Catholics to reconcile. On today’s program,…

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Image Makeover for Del?

Some have been emailing asking where I’ve been.  Well, yesterday I was in Jackson, MS and guess what?  I saw Del emerging from a hairdresser’s salon, sans his trademark soul patch and ponytail.  Can it be that Reformed theology’s answer…

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A Gem from Calvin . . .

. . . that I found while mining his Commentary on John for something else entirely: “Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection” (Vol. 18, p. 84).

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Touchstone Forum on Evangelicalism

Touchstone Magazine posed the following questions to Russell Moore, John Franke, Darryl Hart, Michael Horton, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Denny Burk: “How do you define ‘Evangelical,’ in a way that distinguishes Evangelicals from other believing Christians? And has this definition…

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David Brainerd, Part 4

“Lord’s day, April 18–Retired early this morning into the woods for prayer; had the assistance of God’s Spirit, and faith in exercise, and was enabled to plead with fervency for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom in the world, and to…