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Pod Boghal, Head of Communications at the British side of UCCF has sent me an electronic copy of Jim Packer's latest response to recent criticisms of penal substitution. It appeared in NB News , the British Christian Union News magazine. Those wishing to keep up with the latest Christian Union News...

After five long months of illness, the Lord has taken to himself his servant Bob Cannada . Bob is something of a legend in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) , and in the State of Mississippi. He is one of the founding fathers of the PCA; founder and Managing Partner of Butler, Snow, O'Mara,...

Returning to the blog after a few weeks absence, I notice two things: 1. Ligon really needs to stop posting R rated pictures on the page. That one of Shrek in a lady's wig is really too bad and likely to frighten our younger readers (Lig -- if you come after the bear cubs, those Momma Bears will...

Well, I'm truly humbled and now find myself, as the obviously more talented and better looking half of the duo, in the dilemma described by Lawrence of Arabia in Seven Pillars of Wisdom : `There was a craving to be famous; and a horror of being known to like being known.' I must thank all those...

Just finishing Bob Letham's brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy -- a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus). Typical of Bob's style -- awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which is careful and...

I have remained silent for too long. Trueman's reactionary commendation of Bob Letham on Orthodoxy cannot go without response, so I've invited one of Transylvania's leading theologians to respond: Vlad Dracul -- no, not the medieval scourge of the Carpathian mountains who inspired Bram Stoker's...

It was a privilege to attend Rick Phillips's installation service last night at the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville (South Carolina). Sinclair Ferguson preached from 1 Thessalonians 1 on "Becoming a Model Church" and was in his usual good form. In the light of a previous post on J.I...

"You don't have to be big. You don't have to be flash. You just have to be the church."

Rick Phillips made the mistake of asking me to give the charge at his installation as the twelfth senior minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. I chose the (admittedly unusual and presumably unprecedented) text of Hebrews 4:9-11 and spoke on resting in the finished work of...

Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright's ordo salutis on his blog . His conclusion? "With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events and states, we are able to see that Wright's view of the ordo salutis follows a recurring pattern in Protestantism: the...