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For Calvin's 500th anniversary, you are all set: guided by the Calvin blog on Ref 21, just read daily selections of the Institutes . But what will you do in 2010, for Calvin's 501st anniversary? Here's a suggestion: read Joel Beeke's latest book, 365 Days with Calvin , which features excerpts from...

"O Lord, open thou our minds to see ourselves as thou seest us, or even as others see us and we see others; and from all unwillingness to know our infirmities; Save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. "

Two new books worth noting: the first, Sinclair Ferguson and Mark Dever write fascinating articles on the theme of puritan preaching, drawing from the instruction offered in Westminster Dircetory for Public Worship (1645). Westminster Directory of Public Worship Discussedby Mark Dever and Sinclair...

Congratulations are in order to our very own Sean Lucas and to D.G. Hart and to John Muether, editors and author respectively of the Cornelius Van Til volume in the American Reformed Biography series by P&R. Richard Mouw has a very gracious and warmly appreciative review in the latest issue of...

This was a fasincating opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor (I was referred to it from my facebook homepage; how do you like that, Carl?). The writer essentially argues that because evangelicals have linked themselves to the culture war and because the culture war is turning against...

Typically Bishop Ridding introduced his litany with words like these: "Seeing, brethren, that we are weak men but entrusted with a great office, and that we cannot but be liable to hinder the work entrusted to us by our infirmities of body, soul, and spirit, both those common to all men and those...

A friend has shared with me a litany, or formal order for prayer, written by Dr. George Ridding, the first Bishop of Southwell. The litany was designed for use at meetings of the clergy it was his privilege to supervise and encourage in the ministry of the gospel. Over the next several weeks I will...

Ligonier Ministries have released a fascinating CD called The Alphabet of Revelation which includes several pieces by the renowned contemporary composer J. A. C. Redford, one of which is called The Ancient of Days -- a dramatic musical representation of the seventh chapter of Daniel (the text is...

Part 2 of Guy Waters' radio interview in which he discusses N. T. Wright's latest book (his response to John Piper) can be heard here .

In one of his two sermons on Ecclesiastes 9:10 (about doing things with all your might), Charles Spurgeon refers to the imprisonment of John Bunyan, and to Bunyan's undying commitment to preach the gospel, regardless of persecution. Here is what Bunyan said to his judge: