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Just a quick note in a shameless act of sycophancy to point you to Guy Waters' article in The Law is Not of Faith , edited by Bryan Estelle, J. V. Fesko and David Van Drunen (P & R, 2009) on the interpretation of Romans 10:5. A fascinating piece worth looking at. His citation of Turretin in the...

Two very significant items passed across my desk in the last few days. The first is a new book by Tom Lennie, published by Christian Focus Publications, entitled Glory in the Glen . It is one of the best written studies of evangelical revivals in Scotland from 1880 to 1940. It dispels not a few...

Call me old-fashioned, but I've never been in a massage parlour. I associate it with "things a member in good standing in a Presbyterian Church doesn't do." But this past week I received a note in my church mail-box suggesting that having a massage before speaking in public was a good way to...

Lee Gatiss and Stephen Walton brought the following email from Amazon to my attention. Speaks for itself. Those confused by the connection should realise that John Owen, in addition to being the greatest Puritan theologian of his day, was also a pioneer in the realm of telecommunications. He was,...

Derek has to be going to get his well-thumbed-through copy of The Shack signed. Yes, William P. Young himself will be at Lemuria Bookstore, a great independent bookstore in Jackson, Miss, tomorrow April 16 at 11:00 am. So, Derek, are you taking your classes with you to meet him? Are you and Ligon...

Today was a good book day. I received three books, all on the subject of marriage. First, was Michael Haykin's The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers. I tried to get a copy of this when I was down in Louisville in February. But, it being so popular, his...

. . . are now available on the Internet. This is very good news, indeed. With his customary humility, Rev. Alexander has been somewhat reticent to broadcast his sermons more widely than his own former church (St. George's Tron, Glasgow) or the various places where he has preached in Britain and...

From weakness of judgment, from the indecision that can make no choice, and the irresolution that carries no choice into act, strengthen our eye to see and our will to choose the right; and from losing opportunities and perplexing our people with uncertainties. Save us and help us, we humbly...

Makoto Fujimura has opened a solo exhibit entitled "Olana-Psalms of Ascent" at Philadelphia's White Stone Gallery (in Manayunk). The exhibit features new devotional works that have not previously been displayed in public. There is a public reception this Friday, April 17, from 7-9pm, and the show...

Easter is over. The new clothes are hung up, the candy has been eaten, and choir directors and pastors everywhere--not to mention ushers--are enjoying the quiet routines of a Monday. For the diehard Reformed, you know who you are, this Monday is like every other Monday because Easter Sunday is like...