Woof woof!
Trotter, Del is in New York at a Wagnerfest. Brünnhilde has angered Wotan and sided with Siegmund and Sieglinde and has been cast into a magical sleep… Well, I won’t go into the details. Let’s say, it’s all in German.…
Category Reformation21
Entertaining Ourselves to Death
Ours is the first generation of Christians that has seriously asked the question, how much time can I spend on entertaining myself? In all the reading I have done in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, I have never once come…
Entertaining Ourselves to Death
Ours is the first generation of Christians that has seriously asked the question, how much time can I spend on entertaining myself? In all the reading I have done in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, I have never once come…
The dog that did not bark
As Sherlock Holmes said somewhere, the clue to the case was the dog that did not bark. Should we interpret the silence on Carl Trueman’s (or, to avoid causing sexist offence or falling prey to enlightenment foundationalism in these relativist…
Trinitarianism
Given the fact that the Trinitarian identity of the Christian God is the identity of the Christian God, how do the other bloggers on Ref21 (who are all ministers) ensure that the action of worship in their churches on a…
Spurgeon on Assurance
“Nobody ever did perish trusting in Jesus. There has not been through all these centuries a single instance of a soul being cast away that came all guilty and hell-deserving, and took Christ to be its salvation. If you perish,…
A Warning for Young Readers
Even a brief perusal of the Fall 2007 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers shows how far the publisher’s mission has moved, not to say strayed, from its Reformed and evangelical heritage. To be sure, there are promising titles in the catalog. But…
A Single Eye
A week or two ago I made a post on a new biography of C. Stacey Woods. Here is a characteristic quotation from his message “A Single Eye,” first given at the Urbana Conference in 1954: “If a Christian has…
What Would Luther Do?
Writing in USA Today this week, Skidmore College’s Mary Zeiss Stange argues that Martin Luther would join her in blessing same-sex unions. The basic argument for this is as conventional as it is false, namely, that the genius of the Reformation…
No little people
Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book: