It should be remembered that it requires far higher intellectual power, and more strenuous intellectual effort, to present Sunday after Sunday the very truth of God clearly and impressively, with out wearisome iteration of the same forms of though...
There is something wonderful about Christians from all over the place getting together to sing, to hear good preaching, to pray together and share fellowship. That all happened at the London Presbyterian Conference last Saturday.
This was the thi...
Evangelicalism is not, first and foremost, belief in an inerrant Bible. It begins with a certain kind of self-understanding: the knowledge of our own guilt, our own depravity, our own alienation from God. This is the best, in fact, the only hermen...
Yesterday the internet lit up with the news of the resignation of Mark Driscoll as pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. I have to admit I am both sad and relieved.
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Now, here is a ‘nobody’ (but not to Christ) writing about a pastor of a ch...
To know we are called by God, there is not need to find out what God decreed before the creation of the world, for we find in ourselves all the evidence we need, if he has sanctified us by his Spirit and enlightened us in the faith of his Gospel.
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A few years ago I had a fellow minister round for morning coffee. I had not met him before. He had just moved into the area. I wanted to get to know him, especially as his predecessor was such an encouragement to me when I was starting out in Soli...
Some links of note...
It’s a great privilege to have interns who want to come and work in a church. But once you have got them, what do you do with them? Kevin de Young has some ideas, especially about what to get them to read. Of course, as a a ...
It is an evangelical grace. In other words, it is connected with the gospel. It goes alongside faith in Christ who is presented in the gospel. It is a result of the gospel’s work in the life of the Christian. So, to state this negatively, it is no...
The following is an extract from the standards which deal with the definition and meaning of repentance. Repentance is also closely connected with the use of the means of grace (preaching, sacraments, prayer) but those sections are not included.
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Wherever the knowledge of it is taken away, the glory of Christ is extinguished, religion abolished, the church destroyed, and the hope of salvation utterly overthrown.
