Category Reformation21

My entrance into the blogosphere will be sporadic over the next week or two as I prepare to speak at the Women in the Church leadership and Mission to North America mercy ministry conferences in Atlanta on Friday, April 20, and…

Readers may wish to follow this link to read a tribute to Meredith Kline written by Lee Irons. [Linked by permission]

Lee Irons: Today I learned that my favorite seminary professor passed away peacefully last night after a long illness. He taught me much about the covenantal and typological structure of the Scriptures. Most of all I will miss his sweet…

The ESV blog posts about Crossway’s forthcoming Literary Study Bible, edited by Leland Ryken and Philip Ryken.

For the last several years Tenth Church has been performing a concert on the evening of Good Friday — something that has proven to be a suitable recognition of the day and an effective outreach to our Center City community.…

Charles Spurgeon’s sermon “Christ’s First and Last Subject” is on repentance, which Christ preached both at the beginning (see Matthew 4:17) and at the end (see Luke 24:47) of his earthly ministry. Spurgeon’s taxonomy of true and saving repentance is…

This morning I came downstairs to find two of the young women in my life (age 2 and age 4, respectively), lifting up hockey sticks in the entry way and singing loud “Hallelujahs!”  The word “Hallelujah” was sung frequently last…

With the great demographic shift to the southern hemisphere in terms of evangelical Christianity, the issue of listening to the voices of brothers and sisters from these newly significant areas is a pressing one.  But I want to raise some…

Recently I read Otherwise, a collection of new and selected poems by Jane Kenyon, including the last poems she wrote before dying of leukemia in 1995.  One of my favorite Kenyon poems is “Man Sleeping,” a short piece that calls us…

In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell writes: “And when Jesus died on the cross he died for everybody. Everybody.Everywhere.Every tribe, every nation, every tongue, every people group.Jesus said that when he was lifted up, he would draw all people to himself.All…