Having been nurtured in the warmth of the doctrines of grace for my entire Christian life, I am often dismayed at charges that are leveled against Calvinism, especially those that would depict the Reformed faith as legalistic and harsh. Unfortunately,…
Boy she’s good. Here’s her take on Bob Woodward’s State of Denial.
Oxford University Press have just released the paperback edition of Augustine’s Commentary on Galatians in a fresh translation and lengthy (very lengthy!) introduction by University of Scranton professor, Eric Plumer (hardback edition appeared in 2003). What caught my eye (amidst…
The June 2006 issue of ByFaith (the official magazine of the PCA) features a helpful article by Stephen McGarvey on “Technology and the Church.” McGarvey writes: “The head of consumer electronics giant Philips once told the magazine The Economist that…
Those interested in the audio lectures for the Desiring God National Conference (“Above All Earthly Pow’rs,” featuring David Wells, John Piper, Don Carson, Voddie Baucham, Mark Driscoll, and Tim Keller), can find the audio files collected here. BTW, here was…
Philip Johnston in yesterday’s edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper.gave a chilling account of what the latest European Union legal rulings will mean for Britain. He took as his cue an adverisement in a local newspaper, which read: “Retired couple…
This week I read the decision in Americans United for Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries, in which Judge Robert Pratt ruled that state funding for the InnerChange prison rehabilitation program amounted to an unlawful establishment of religion. …
Rick’s comments about James Boice are confirmed by the title gave to the congregational history he edited for Tenth Presbyterian Church on the occasion of its 150th anniversary: Making God’s Word Plain. I am reminded of something that the worthy Puritan…
The rules from C.S. Lewis are both compelling and challenging. It reminds of one of Dr. James Boice’s maxims: speak from the Germanic and not the Latin side of the English vocabulary. He meant that preachers should cultivate plain and…
When possible (I am often hopelessly behind), I try to include the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society in my regular reading. A week or two ago I quoted from Daniel Wallace’s excellent piece in the June 2006 issue —…
