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The book Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution is finally available in the U.S. You can read John Piper's foreword and chapter 1 online. Westminster Bookstore is offering a special price of 40% off (until Nov. 2).

This week I received not one but two fresh new books on evangelism in the mail. One is by Rick Phillips: Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from the Book of John . It is very attractively put together, by the folks at Reformation Trust Publishing. As the title suggests, the emphasis...

A potpourri of trivia and gems: first, a warning if you listen to Rick's advice to watch the meerkat saga! He should have told us of the emotional cost of investing sympathy for Mozart and her two sisters! In the space of 30 minutes all three had died! How was I to sleep after a sight of an...

Last night was the 8th annual Reformation Hymn Festival at Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It was a memorable evening of praise. Westminster Seminary California's President, Dr. Robert Godfrey, was the preacher. He made a simple but important point about the Protestant Reformation: the...

" Lord's day, April 18 --Retired early this morning into the woods for prayer; had the assistance of God's Spirit, and faith in exercise, and was enabled to plead with fervency for the advancement of Christ's kingdom in the world, and to intercede for dear absent friends. At noon, God enabled me to...

Carl, great article ! Is this part of a forthcoming feschrift for C.J. Mahaney??

Touchstone Magazine posed the following questions to Russell Moore, John Franke, Darryl Hart, Michael Horton, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Denny Burk: “How do you define ‘Evangelical,’ in a way that distinguishes Evangelicals from other believing Christians? And has this definition changed over the last...

. . . that I found while mining his Commentary on John for something else entirely: "Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection" (Vol. 18, p. 84).

Some have been emailing asking where I've been. Well, yesterday I was in Jackson, MS and guess what? I saw Del emerging from a hairdresser's salon, sans his trademark soul patch and ponytail. Can it be that Reformed theology's answer to Frank Zappa has allowed one of Trueman's predictable rants to...