“Come beloved, listen for a moment to this!” preached Charles Spurgeon. “You have the milk of faith, but God wills that you should have this cream of assurance! He would increase your faith.”[1] The proven pastors and teachers who have…
When Gilbert Meilaender writes a book, I press “pre-order” at Amazon. Not because I agree with everything he writes, but because he, as an astute theologian and ethicist, is consistently insightful about the nature of what he calls “the perennial…
Another, much anticipated book by J. I. Packer (and a second co-authored by Carolyn Nystrom). This one, as the title makes abundantly clear, on prayer – or, as the action-word suggests, praying. A century and a half ago the Scottish…
What is it that causes some people to be more religious than others? Could it possibly be that some people are genetically predisposed to have certain spiritual experiences? Is there a “god” gene? Some people say that there is, or…
The theology of Richard Baxter has an intriguing complexity to it. Baxter has been described by his opponents as a Calvinist, an Amyraldian, an Arminian, a Roman Catholic and even as a Socinian. As a result many have simply resorted…
“To invert a famous quip of Gore Vidal, in theology, it is not enough for heretics to fail; the church must succeed.” Last summer, I was fortunate enough to spend some weeks working at a church in Scotland, just outside…
So how should we deal with the inescapable overload of life in the twenty-first century? Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the things you need to get done, and discouraged by all the things you probably won’t? Almost every…
