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Connection Metro Church , Denver, which used its foyer coffee bars to attract visitors to its eight satellite churches in the Denver area, has decided to abandon ministry altogether to focus on coffee. "People liked the coffee a lot better than the ministry, according to congregational surveys, so...

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING BLOG MAY CONTAIN HINTS OF IRONY AND MAY THEREFORE PROVE INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO AMERICANS. READER DISCRETION ADVISED. Due to the large volume of mail generated by the addition to our blog of Rev Boadicea von Ribbentrop, Priest-in-Charge of ST Olaf's the Sublime, Cricklewood, we...

Russell Moore has a superb blog post at Touchstone's "Mere Comments" responding to the new report discouraging transracial adoption. It's a must-read.

James MacDonald (Harvest Bible Chapel, Rolling Meadows, IL) gave us this zinger at The Gospel Coalition this week: "Sometimes our presentation of the gospel is so watered down that even the non-elect can't reject it."

Cohen's (and Trueman's) critique of the left misses the one real tragedy of the left, political and theological: absolutely no sense of humor. Still, that's a plus for the rest of us, as it has provided endless material for the conservatives throughout church history to have a go and have a laugh...

In my morning worship today, I was in Zephaniah and 3:9 leaped out at me: "For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord." Several texts connected in my mind and raised larger questions...

Well, blow me down, here's another Trueman (a third) writing an intorduction to yet another little piece on Barth. One of these Trueman's needs to give us some pointers as to why we should be messing with this errant child! I mean, what can we learn from this man except that those who have embarced...

Well, brother Del, what a week! First of all we find out that Trueman, that arch opponent of consumerist eclecticism has an iPod, and now we see that he has edited a book on Barth with his old friend and leading UK Barthian systematician, Neil MacDonald!! There is only one possible explanation:...

A geezer from Pekham village told me that he'd just come across this magnificent little primer on Karl Barth by some one called Neil MacDonald and Carl Trueman! Now, as me ole mother used to say, there's nowt as odd as folk, this can't surely be the same Trueman, the one what trashed Barth...

Like Ligon, I am spending most of the week at the Pastor's Colloquium sponsored by The Gospel Coalition -- 40+ pastors from across the country who are committed to evangelical essentials and who gather once a year to encourage one another in ministry. One of today's highlights was Tim Keller's...