Perhaps we’ve already mentioned this volume–I can’t remember–but readers may be interested in the publication of Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints, by Joel Beeke and Randall Peterson, published by Reformation Heritage. Its 900 pages contain biographical…
God bless you. I believe that future history (whether in heaven or on earth) will look back on these present years and realize that the most valuable servants in Christ’s kingdom were those humble, faithful, Spirit-filled men of God who…
The current phenomenon of ministers downloading or otherwise cribbing sermons is yet another symptom of a church that is spiritually out to sea. The Bible says that the ascended Christ gave pastor/teachers to his church (Eph. 4:11), not that he…
At the risk of waking the sleeping giant (Rodders) I thought I’d share with you my morning. It began with a headache (literally) which has all the portents of being here to stay! Then, exams — not the taking of…
In a November 24 letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, Dan Heneghan of Monkton, Maryland, decries the defense of plagiarized sermons: “The Rev. Steve Sjogren preaches that ‘attribution is a waster of time,’ a perspective not embraced…
This may be old news, but I first learned of it yesterday and thought it would be good to share: Our friend Michael Horton has been named the initial holder of the J. Gresham Machen Chair of Systematic Theology and…
Reformed University Fellowship, the student-based fellowship of the Presbyterian Church in America, have been banned from meeting on the campus of Brown University. See the following links: Here and here and here.
For those interested, Ian Glover sent me the actual text about the Scottish minister who was so ungrateful: Letter addressed to Rev Robert [?], Kirkintilloch, by [Rev] Finlay Stewart November 9th 1813. (Letter addressed to members of Presbytery calling to…
Thanks Phil. You are quite correct. I am a three-month old grandfather of a beautiful girl named “Hannah May.” In Belfast, where my daughter and son-in-law live, she is known as Hannah, but in Mississippi, these sweet folk have a…
I believe I am right in saying that Derek Thomas is now a grandfather, and for the first time. Derek, would you care to give us any personal reflections on this significant milestone in the Thomas family?
