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On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus (Lk. 24:1-3). It's a familiar tale that Christians like us insist is true...

'The ratio of grind to glamour is three to one'. This was an off-the-cuff remark made recently on a UK television documentary on the topic of oratory. Taking January's Presidential inauguration in Washington as its cue, the programme traced the history of rhetoric, and noted its belated return to...

John Flavel: Lord, the condemnation was yours, that the justification might be mine. The agony was yours, that the victory might be mine. The pain was yours, and the ease mine. The stripes were yours, and the healing balm issuing from them mine. The vinegar and gall were yours, that the honey and...

Derek, I too am preaching through 1 Samuel. In fact, I was up late last night reading probably the very same commentaries you are reading. I also find that if you want doctrinal insights and applications, you need to look at older commentaries. More current commentaries are far more likely to note...

Carl Trueman reviews David Wells' The Courage to be Protestant in the latest edition of the The Ordained Servant (denominational magazine of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) here . We saw it coming, of course: Wells' on "consumerism" and its linkage to capitalism was bound to strike a nerve...

Here's the first part of a new interview with Ligon --talking about what the New Calvinists can learn from the Old Calvinists (and vice-versa), as well as good, practical, pastoral advice on leading people in the Word. Excellent job, Lig. Part 2 will be posted later this week.

Is it just me, or do others find that so many commentaries are not all that helpful? It has been my observation for some time but it returned with avengance in recent weeks. I'm preaching through 1 Samuel and have somewhere between 25-30 commentaries at hand ranging from Patristic to one published...

Let me add my congratulations to Sean Lucas, and to First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg, MS, for his call to their pulpit. I am always delighted when our best men go to the pulpit, because preaching is always the first need of the church. In our series introduction to the Reformed Expository...

If you don't know about the Tominthebox news network , you are wrong. An example is this spoof about a Twitter church. It is too funny (and just a bit scary), especially this classic comment: "We don't need to actually get together physically to be a church. The key is that we care about one...

News has filtered out that our own Sean Lucas has received and accepted a call as the Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi (PCA). Brian Chapell released a formal note offering his congratulations on behalf of Covenant Seminary today. Sean takes up his new role in...