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A new edition of the 9 Marks Newsletter is now online [also available in PDF]. Here’s an introduction from editor Jonathan Leeman:

Here’s one Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that Carl may agree with.

It seems that every year at the PCRT, something is said that focuses the entire conference.  Last year it was Sinclair Ferguson’s insistence that our goal is not merely “to know the truth of God’s Word, but to know the…

I just returned from the first installment of this year’s Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, at Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, CA.  It was another classic PCRT!  There were so many highlights, all of them resulting from the Spirit’s presence…

Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things.  First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee’ that…

My wife and I went to see the Wilberforce movie last (it had all the feel of a Baptist Prayer Meeting inside the theater with folks wearing suits and ties and the average age, well, my age!). It was hugely enjoyable,…

The tiresome story of the “Tomb of Jesus” rolls on, proving once again the eagerness with which unbelief will grasp at anything to believe a lie. Informed responses can be found at the following sites:  Andreas Kostenberger, Ben Witherington, Darrell…

America is a great country.  Where else could I turn on the television this week and witness a serious debate about whether the televising of the Oscars last Sunday had adversely affected attendance at Nascar races that day?  It is…

Ah, yes.  Pelagius.  Now which nation has to take responsibility for him?

I’ve been “in class” all day, and my English friend obviously needs some education on the significance of St. David, who bravely fought against Pelagianism in the sixth century. He was a superb rugby player, triumphing in the notorious win at…