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In his masterful little book The Elder and His Work , David Dickson writes: "Let people avoid getting into a grudging, grumbling way about church matters, but rather take a hearty, kindly interest in them. Many things in this world, both civil and ecclesiastical, are not what they should be and...

Writing in Five Views of Sanctification , Sinclair Ferguson explains that in Reformed theology, sanctification is "rooted not in humanity and in their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and...

A disagreement has broken out on whether or not Tom Schreiner is correct when he suggests (in his forthcoming book, New Testament Theology ) that the most basic theme of the New Testament is, "God magnifying himself through Jesus Christ by means of the Holy Spirit." Justin Taylor drew attention to...

Check this out: http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/news/article3201577.ece After 500 years, the strategy remains the same: boycott a cultural product to make it the most popular thing since sliced bread. And now we have another example: with the release of Pullman's Golden Compass , the Catholic...

Banner of Truth has republished a nice little book of selections from Samuel Rutherford's marvelous pastoral letters. The book is called The Loveliness of Christ , and it looks to be ideal for devotional use. Here is one of Rutherford's gems: "If there were ten thousand, thousand millions of worlds...

When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the stories about Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to tell, I never once embraced Islam or was even tempted so to do. That's...

Justin T just brought this book to my attention. Haven't read it but may be of interest: http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3379 Personally, I think I may well boycott the movie after all: apparently it's set in Oxford University which is a simply frightful place and not somewhere to...

In criticizing The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , I fear that Carl Trueman may be committing a category mistake. It is true, of course, and widely known, that C. S. Lewis did not have a fully Reformed theology of the atonement. It is a mistake, though, to expect a work of fiction to carry the...

While I believe Carl Trueman is right to caution against an overreaction to Philip Pullman, I still believe that his books, particularly, must be distinguished from Harry Potter, the Arabian Nights, and most other secular literature for children. Here is why: it is clear from Pullman's many public...

I have to weigh in on Phil's side regarding Narnia. It certainly is true that C.S. Lewis had some doctrinal problems (I find this is a fairly common thing when a very accomplished person comes to faith later in life). This means that we should thoughtful in making use of his genius. But Lewis's...