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…
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…
This week I was privileged to attend a Philadelphia book signing for A. Donald MacLeod’s new biography of C. Stacey Woods, the first general secretary of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States and the key founder of the International…
One of the best books I have read on the Gospel and the nature of salvation is John Ensor’s The Great Work of the Gospel. In a chapter entitled “The Great Work Enjoyed” Ensor writes: Those whom God declares righteous,…
Our friend Tony Reinke over at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook (a really good site) has just posted Derek Thomas’ lectures on John Owen from PRTS. Think of it, Derek Thomas on John Owen. What a combination! But I can beat it.…
Thomas Boston is remembered as one of the great Puritan pastors in 16th century Scotland. He was a champion of sound doctrine at a time when it was under attack. His book The Fourfold State of Man is still one…
The First Twenty Years are the HardestWindow on the WorldPhilip Ryken It was twenty years ago that Lisa Maxwell and I walked down the aisle at the First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As a minister, I go…
The First Twenty Years are the HardestWindow on the WorldPhilip Ryken It was twenty years ago that Lisa Maxwell and I walked down the aisle at the First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As a minister, I go…
Better than Chick Lit IIWages of SpinCarl Trueman Last month, I devoted this column to reflecting on some of the areas of Catholicism with which Protestants can not only sympathise but from which they can learn much to their…
Better than Chick Lit IIWages of SpinCarl Trueman Last month, I devoted this column to reflecting on some of the areas of Catholicism with which Protestants can not only sympathise but from which they can learn much to their…
