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Looks like Scott Oliphint, holder of the newly endowed Jackie Chan Chair of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, has sold out and gone over to Twitter; but those looking for the expected Oliphint tweet fare of the " Told @chuck_norris that if he comes round here again presupposing he...

Is someone willing to sign my petition to stop Christians from producing petitions. A petition to support marriage, a petition against gay marriage, a petition to ask liberals to stop being mean to us, a petition to say we uphold Christian values. As far as I can tell the New Testament church didn'...

I have just got hold of Iain Murray's new biography of John MacArthur . It's one of my holiday reads alongside ''Memoirs of a Fruitcake'' (which, surprisingly, is not written by Carl Trueman). The other biography I am taking is 'Blood and Fire - the life of William Booth' by Roy Hattersley. One of...

I'm working on the 175th anniversary history of the First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS, right now. Here is one little jewel that I came across. Elder C. H. Alexander, chairman of the local arrangements committee, was addressing the 1902 General Assembly which met at FPC Jackson. In welcoming...

In preparing for Sunday I got somehow distracted and found myself reading a Discussion Between Dr. E.V. Rieu and the Rev. J.B. Phillips Rieu translated Homer's Odyssey and Iliad from the Greek for Penguin Books and they approached him to translate the gospels. It was through this translation Rieu...

What Paul needs to answer his Lord's Supper problem is the new iPastor app, available for download to smartphones and iPads. Here's the sales pitch from the ad in this month's Reformed Man Today : Embarrassed by meeting your pastor in town and realizing he hasn't got the foggiest who you are? Fed...

I've never been to a multi site church, I'm not really sure what one is. In fact as I think about it apart from a couple of conferences I've never been in a congregation of over a 1000 people. I think I can get my head round watching someone on tv preaching but what happens with the Lord's Supper?...

I'm relearning the Westminster Shorter Catechism. How on earth people learnt the Heidelberg is beyond me. It may be warmer but give me the Westminster any day. It's built for speed and memorability! Alongside I'm reading through Thomas Watson 'A Body of Divinity' . I'd forgotten just how very good...

Clearly, Levy is a man of poor discernment (see the video tour of his library below). But now that I am on the topic of libraries, my recent move has required that I re-shelve my books. It is surprising what emerges when this happens. I discovered, for example, tattered copies of two addresses...

Carl and I are really pleased to present the latest T4G pastor's library tour. Apologies for the shaky camera work and the abrupt ending but I think you'll get the jist. Please make sure you watch the videos in order otherwise the final one loses some of it's effect. Carl and Mrs T will be posting...