It was a privilege to attend Rick Phillips’s installation service last night at the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville (South Carolina). Sinclair Ferguson preached from 1 Thessalonians 1 on “Becoming a Model Church” and was in his usual good form. In…
I have remained silent for too long. Trueman’s reactionary commendation of Bob Letham on Orthodoxy cannot go without response, so I’ve invited one of Transylvania’s leading theologians to respond: Vlad Dracul — no, not the medieval scourge of the Carpathian mountains…
Just finishing Bob Letham’s brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy — a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus). Typical of Bob’s style — awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which…
Well, I’m truly humbled and now find myself, as the obviously more talented and better looking half of the duo, in the dilemma described by Lawrence of Arabia in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: `There was a craving to be famous; and…
Returning to the blog after a few weeks absence, I notice two things: 1. Ligon really needs to stop posting R rated pictures on the page. That one of Shrek in a lady’s wig is really too bad and likely…
After five long months of illness, the Lord has taken to himself his servant Bob Cannada. Bob is something of a legend in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), and in the State of Mississippi. He is one of the…
Pod Boghal, Head of Communications at the British side of UCCF has sent me an electronic copy of Jim Packer’s latest response to recent criticisms of penal substitution. It appeared in NB News, the British Christian Union News magazine. Those wishing to keep up…
This week I was privileged to attend a Philadelphia book signing for A. Donald MacLeod’s new biography of C. Stacey Woods, the first general secretary of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States and the key founder of the International…
Our friend Tony Reinke over at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook (a really good site) has just posted Derek Thomas’ lectures on John Owen from PRTS. Think of it, Derek Thomas on John Owen. What a combination! But I can beat it.…
The First Twenty Years are the HardestWindow on the WorldPhilip Ryken It was twenty years ago that Lisa Maxwell and I walked down the aisle at the First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As a minister, I go…
