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I am just back from preaching at anniversary services at Melbourne Hall Evangelical Free Church in Leicester. The most famous occupant of its pulpit was its first minister, F.B. Meyer (of whom a recent biography by Bob Holman was published by Christian Focus Publications last year). Meyer led...

A new issue of Themelios is now online. Be sure not to miss Don Carson's editorial (on the relationship between the gospel and deeds of mercy) and Carl Trueman's article on The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read .

Tony Reinke recently completed a series of blog posts on the neglected Puritan, Thomas Manton: Review of the Complete Works of Thomas Manton Interview: Ten Reasons to Read Manton Today Beeke: Biography of Thomas Manton (1620-1677) Manton: Walking by Faith Manton: "God loves us because he loves us"

"Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation. If, indeed, they who differ from us have a power of changing themselves, if they can open their own eyes, and soften their own hearts...

Yes, it's official. See here . Isn't democracy wonderful. I am not sure how to interpret the results. Perhaps as a reactionary, Del-boy type feudalist: we need to return to the good old Wagnerian days; see what the generation of soul-patched, feminised twenty- and thirty-something `conversational-...

A couple of days ago, I had some time to read on a flight to Philadelphia, and so was able finally to finish Andy Crouch's new book, Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling . I have to admit that the pre-pub buzz around the book didn't make me very hopeful; as I've noted before , I'm a bit...

While I was in London I met up with my good friend Gary Brady. Gary has written some fine books and his latest, What the Bible Teaches about Being Born Again , is a welcome treatment of the subject. Great stuff. Clear and straightforward prose on one of the most travelled phrases of twentieth and...

In case some of our readers may have missed it, the August sermon series at The Oaks Fellowship in Red Oak, Texas, featured four messages on four books by Theodor Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss). "Sometimes we get way too serious as adults, and sometimes we just need to relax," the preacher says...

According to The Sunday Times (9/14/08), the British government has incorporated Islamic law into the British legal system by establishing five sharia courts. The judgments of these courts are now enforceable with the full power of British law, running all the way up through the High Court. This is...

Here's a blog interview I just did with bluesman Steve Nichols.