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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:

Martin Downes, the great Welsh ecumenist, brought this article in The Times to my attention.  As Tipton and Oliphint exclude Trueman from the congregation of the faithful, so the Pope now excludes everyone outside his own communion: Looks like…

I see that K Scott Oliphint and Lane G Tipton have published a new book, Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed APologetics (P and R).   It seems that every member of Westminster’s Theological Field was invited to contribute, with…

Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright’s ordo salutis on his blog. His conclusion? “With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events and states, we are able to see that Wright’s view…

Rick Phillips made the mistake of asking me to give the charge at his installation as the twelfth senior minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. I chose the (admittedly unusual and presumably unprecedented) text of Hebrews 4:9-11…

“You don’t have to be big.  You don’t have to be flash.  You just have to be the church.” 

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…