Neuhaus versus Wright
`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.’ So goes a line from Mark Knopfler’s `Ode to Sonny Liston.’ Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest over at First Things: N…
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Neuhaus versus Wright
`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.’ So goes a line from Mark Knopfler’s `Ode to Sonny Liston.’ Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest over at First Things: N…
A Little Bit of Comfort for Machen’s Worrier Children
In the fall of 2006, Christianity Today’s Collin Hansen wrote an article which pointed to the fact that, for all of the hoo-hah about the Emerging/ent Church, there was a growing interest among young Christian people in America in traditional…
Judging a Sermon
Alan at Truth In Context offers this very helpful test for determining whether or not a sermon is truly Christian.
The Woman with the Measuring Line
I was alerted by Scott Clark’s blog to a year-old article by Sally Morgenthaler in which she declares the worship-evangelism mega-church experiment, of which she was such a proponent, to be a failure. After a generation of seeker-sensitive consumer-driven worship,…
Paul David Tripp – Whiter Than Snow
I love Paul Tripp’s books. Metro East was privileged to host Dr. Tripp for a weekend seminar in April. What a blessing that was! Anyway, here is a “heads up” on his forthcoming book, “Whiter Than Snow” which is…
Even the winds obey Him
Check out this excellent article by Dr. Vern Poythress on what the weather says about God.
Packer Interview, Post-GAFCON
J. I. Packer was interviewed at All Souls regarding GAFCON. You can read the entire transcript here. Asked to summarize his counsel to them, Packer–who has frequently reminded us that he’s Packer by name, packer by nature–said, “Keep the faith,…
Does Proverbs Speak of Jesus?
During my seminary days I was overly enamored with Biblical Theology and Redemptive-Historical interpretation. While I continue to appreciate and employ the significant insights of these interpretive approaches to Scripture, I now realize that I went a bit overboard in…
Gagnon on the Heidelberg Catechism
Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here.