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It was surreal moment: Steve, country boy from Lancaster, PA meeting his blues-idol, B. B. King, from Indianola, Mississippi. The blues singer happened to be in Jackson this week and Steve "dragged" me to "get some culture." The evening was a lesson in so many things, but will we ever team up again...

Given the attention to Jim Packer's split with the Anglican Church of Canada, I wanted to draw some attention to one of his best writing projects, recently published in Scotland by Mentor under the title 18 Words: The Most Important Words you will ever Know . Originally published as a series of...

Joel Beeke's new book is out from Reformation Heritage Books: Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption . It's a short, hardcover book, and the first substantive study on what the Puritans really believed about spiritual adoption. Here are a couple of blurbs: "Dr. Beeke is well-known for his...

It is a sign of things to come, perhaps. Two evangelists in Britain were prevented from handing out tracts of Scripture by a Muslim community police-officer. They were accused of a hate-crime for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. the two evangelists were Americans. They are pressing the...

This past April, my wife and I had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of the Westminster Seminary California community as the Westminster Student Association Lecturer. We had a wonderful time and hopefully were able to contribute a bit. My lecture was entitled, "The Only Hope for America:...

Tony Reinke recently snapped some nice photos of Machen's grave.

I used to tell people that Sinclair Ferguson could have read the phone book during his lectures and it would have not only been interesting, but profound. My theory was put to the test not by a Scottish brogue, but by a Welsh accent. Last night at First Pres in Jackson, Derek Thomas preached on...

I am also reading The Faithful Preacher this week, a book by Thabiti Anyabwile that presents selections from Lemuel Haynes, Daniel Payne, and Francis Grimke, three African-American pastors from the Reformed tradition. The African American church generally is not associated with Reformed theology...

In my morning worship, I've also been reading sections of Isaiah. One thing that struck me were the competing claims represented in Isaiah 46 and 47. In Isaiah 46, God clearly stakes his claim to absolute sovereign rights: "for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me...

With a road trip this week, I have finally had the opportunity to read The Jesus Gospel by my friend Liam Goligher, who preaches at the historical Duke Street Richmond Church in London. Liam wrote this book out of a desire to clarify the biblical doctrine of the atonement for ordinary Christians...