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Thanks, Carl, for the link to the Wright-Neuhaus. Despite, as you point out, the increasingly whiny stance of NTW's self-defense, you have to admit that he is pretty feisty. My favorite, second to his insinuation that Neuhaus was projecting his own Lutheran-Catholic angst onto an Anglican was this...

I asked our good friend Alistair Begg what he was reading this summer: 1. "Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics" by Graeme Goldsworthy. This is Goldsworthy at his comprehensive best. A terrific help in not missing the wood for the trees in exegesis and exposition. 2. "The Courage to Be Protestant" by David...

From Jonathan Edwards, "God Glorified in the Work of Redemption," in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader , ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-5: The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by...

In the fall of 2006, Christianity Today's Collin Hansen wrote an article which pointed to the fact that, for all of the hoo-hah about the Emerging/ent Church, there was a growing interest among young Christian people in America in traditional Reformed theology. If Hansen was right, then it was not...

I was alerted by Scott Clark's blog to a year-old article by Sally Morgenthaler in which she declares the worship-evangelism mega-church experiment, of which she was such a proponent, to be a failure. After a generation of seeker-sensitive consumer-driven worship, the unchurched have not been...

J. I. Packer was interviewed at All Souls regarding GAFCON. You can read the entire transcript here. Asked to summarize his counsel to them, Packer--who has frequently reminded us that he's Packer by name, packer by nature--said, " Keep the faith, resist Liberalism, do not act the ostrich, hiding...

We had a special service in our church this evening. The traditions of Scottish Highland evangelical piety in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to the 'Question' meeting. This was a meeting in which the laymen of the church could participate; and in which they often showed...

The Presbyterian Layman reports that after first voting to remove "homosexual perversion" from the list of sins found in the Heidelberg Confession, the PC(USA) then approved a $2 million warchest to wage legal combat against the New Wineskins group (a large group of churches seeking to leave the...

Summer vacation (as well as a teaching trip to Regent College in Vancouver) begins next week. As I anticipate laying down many of the burdens of pastoral care, at least for a little while, here is a salutary reminder of my calling, from Bishop Daniel A. Payne's "The Christian Ministry: Its Moral...

Writing in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society , David Wells explains what our church and our culture need: "The renewal of which we stand in need, I believe, is of both the understanding of truth and of our knowledge of the God of that truth. It is not one or the other but it is the...