Category Reformation21

More from Charles Spurgeon on preaching the whole work of Christ: “He did not merely come to save us from the guilt of sin, but he came to save us from the power of sin. He does not merely bring…

Justin — do you know, I can’t recall where I delivered them.   But then I’m told my lectures are a bit like the sixties — if you can remember them, then you weren’t really there.

If you want an introduction to John Owen’s theology, here is a series of five lectures by Carl Trueman on Owen: John Owen: The Man and His Time by Carl Trueman John Owen and the Practice of Theology by Carl…

Justin Taylor writes: “18. Reject the theories of collectivist sin, guilt, or exoneration when dealing outside of a covenantal context.”  Whether I agree with this statement depends on what counts as “a covenantal context.” 

Rosie O’Donnell has begun her new job on ABC’s “The View” by claiming that “Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.”  She went on to equate…

Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge…. Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity…

Just FYI.  A new Understanding the Times has been posted in this issue, as well as a few book reviews. Carl, I have made some self-deprecating statements about the Welsh.  

Phil, thanks for that helpful, clarifying distinction with regard to multiracial churches. Well said.

I was struck by this description of social and intellectual attitudes in the ancient world in Ivor Davidson’s Birth of the Church (Baker):