Reformation21

In our efforts to make Christ known where God has put us, we have regular meetings to preach the gospel in a village outside our town. It is a hard place, not surprisingly given that it is full of hard hearts, many of which are cushioned by a false assurance derived from long-term empty religiosity...

The friends over at The Confessing Baptist have posted some resources trying to help Baptists think through the furore regarding republication. You can find some of them here , from where you can follow other trails. Others are working on the same material here . Although there remain some...

Sorry, glitch with the first post. Had to republish this again. "Virtually all of the Reformed theologians of the era recognized, albeit in varying degrees, that there could be no relationship between God and the finite, mutable creature apart from grace. This was also the burden of the medieval...

Sorry, glitch with the first post. Had to republish this again. "Virtually all of the Reformed theologians of the era recognized, albeit in varying degrees, that there could be no relationship between God and the finite, mutable creature apart from grace. This was also the burden of the medieval...

Where should your children be during corporate worship? What does the Bible say about it? Does church history help us answer this question? Over the years, I have tried to read various positions regarding the inclusion of children during Sunday service or the departure of children, whether just...

EPCEW have a couple of conferences they've asked me to highlight The first being the London Presbyterian Conference on Sat 18th October with Ligon Duncan, Andy Young, Ian Hamilton and Bill Schweitzer which takes place in Central London The second being the Berlin Presbyterian Conference on 21/22...

The Baptists love their water; The Covenanters love their Psalter; But mess with the Klineans, You'll soon be on the altar! The good folk at Ref21 - that is, the top men - were so chuffed with my entrance into this intra-Reformed debate, that they'd like to see more publications on republication...

Earlier this summer Pete Enns wrote a blog post describing the pivotal role that I Cor. 10.4 played in his progressive rethink of the notion of biblical inerrancy (at least as that notion has been understood in traditional Reformed teaching). In that verse Paul, drawing exhortation for Corinthian...

In the 1990s and early noughties Australian cricket was dominant. Depressingly aggressive, they would come over to England and their bowlers would rip into us, their batsman would knock us all over the park and England were often left a quivering wreck. It was quite similar in conservative...

It's a big day for Ref21 - even after a busy summer with lots of unknown signings to the blog, right at the end of the transfer window like Man United signing Di Maria on deadline day, Ref 21 have pulled Donald Macleod out of the hat. The powers that be with all their negotiating powers I salute...