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Thabiti Anyabwile is speaking at RTS Jackson for the next three days. I plan to enter a summary of his addresses in this blog each day. Check back later in the day.

John Seel brought my attention to this article in today's USA Today . Here are a couple of quotes. "You can create a church that's big, but is still not transforming people. Without transformation, the Christian message is not advanced." -- Ed Stetzer, Lifeway Research "The megachurch story is not...

Scott Clark has posted a link to Ligon's three lectures on covenant theology at Westminster Seminary California (the den Dulk lectures). Nicholas Batzig has been posting links to online sermons by Eric Alexander ( here and here ). J. I. Packer is interviewed about the book, In My Place Condemned He...

As some readers may know, the role of women in the mercy ministry of the church is a live issue in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). At Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church, where I serve as senior minister, our practice is to commission (not ordain) women as deaconesses. A full...

Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters, was also home, some seventy years earlier, to one of the great men of the eighteenth century evangelical revival in Britain: William Grimshaw of Haworth. J.C. Ryle regarded him, along with John Wesley and George Whitefield, as one of the three greatest men in...

For my first post since June (so long I could hardly remember how to find the window for posting), I share a couple of apt turns of phrase from my friend and colleague Paul Tripp, who is just finishing a summer series in the Psalms. In describing the consumeristic approach that many Americans take...

Regarding Todd Bentley and the Lakeland revival, even before the immorality hit the news, R.T. Kendall (who endorsed and endorses the Toronto Blessing) had already emphatically declared that the Lakeland revival "isn't of God." Why is he so sure? Here's what he says: "First, never once have I heard...

Updating Tolstoy Wages of Spin Carl Trueman Some years ago the BBC produced a new version of Tolstoy's romantic tragedy, Anna Karenina , with the twist was that this was to be an updated version set in the present day. I guess we are all by now familiar with updates of great pieces of literature. I...

I've been preaching through Acts and have been making some references to the "meat offered to idols" issue. And it crossed my mind, "This has some bearing on sneakers and church!" Right! The connection is tenuous, to be sure. Let me explain. Paul's argument with the tenderloin at knock-down prices...

It's been called the greatest hoax ever played on the classical music recording industry. Several years ago, a British pianist that hardly anyone had even heard of, and who had recently died, Joyce Hatto by name, had, so we were led to believe, been in the recording studio shortly before she died...