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The letter "from the editor" in the spring issue of ByFaith (the official magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America, in which I serve as a pastor) reports that ByFaith will soon launch an online series about the health of PCA churches, using Mark Dever's book What Is a Healthy Church? as a...

Our friends at "Christ the Center" have been discussing N. T. Wright's new book (the response to John Piper) with Dr. Guy Waters. Listen to the broadcasts here .

I have just finished a series of 38 messages on Ezra/Nehemiah at First Pres, Jackson. Several things struck me as I brought the series to a close. The first was something most consecutive-expository preachers feel at the end of a series: I now think I should start again since I think I understand...

Folks, we are more than capable of an error or two and those keen-eyed followers of our Calvin blog may have noticed a slight glitch in Iain D. Campbell's ordering of the blogs on Monday/Tuesday. We missed one out and we're fixing it as I write. Sorry, Iain. All will be hunky dory in a few moments...

As I write, Thabiti is debating a Muslim on the subject "Who Is God and How Are We Saved?" The Muslim representative chose the topic! God is sovereign and gracious, isn't he? I won't disclose the location for obvious reasons. But you can pray!

From a dear brother, William MacKenzie, o n page 392 of the book Rich Gleanings from Rabbi Duncan (not our own Rabbi Duncan, the other one): It would not do to tell a man that he may come to Christ, but that he must come. Some, indeed, would have man to do all, though he could do nothing; and...

The 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth has already produced some excellent material on Calvin (about which I've been blogging over at Creideamh ). However, perhaps one of the most useful has been published by Christian Focus in the Trailblazers series, in which Catherine Mackenzie has added to her...

I just received my copy of John Piper's new book Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again? One of Piper's reasons for making the biblical case for born-again Christianity is to guard the term against its misuse in popular culture, especially in the sociological research of The Barna Group...

Did I say that Christians trying to be trendy and do things like the U2charist was cringeworthy? Well, as Mrs Emma Peel has just pointed out, the U2charist website helpfully explains how to pronounce Bono (Baw-no, apparently, for those who were wondering). How helpful. I rest my case and am now off...

A student sent this link to me, for a so-called U2charist at a local church, where the purpose is to spread the gospel/U2 vision for reconciliation and peace. It reminded me very much of the much-missed earthwindandfirecharists of the late 70s, where the agenda was to bring the message to a hurting...