April 2007 Archives

While making final preparations for Sunday morning's message, I met up with an old friend. A Calvin quote on the purpose of 1 Peter that I think I first read about five years ago. It struck me (reading it this afternoon)... continue

Phil Ryken's Good Friday message is now available to read, here.... continue

Yesterday we held our traditional Good Friday worship service at Tenth Presbyterian Church.  We meet at noon -- a good time for Center City workers to come over on a lunch break.  I was especially blessed by a beautiful... continue

I find it hard not to envy the disciples a little. They were there for the first Easter. Therefore, they were the first to hear the good news of the resurrection and the first to see the risen Christ. Don’t... continue

I am also wildly enthusiastic about this volume, hot off the press (Evangelical Press). As the picture says, its a volume by Joel Beeke on John's epistles. Some dude called Derek Thomas blurbs on the front cover (too small to... continue

I may have mentioned this book before in these columns but there's no harm in repeating my enthusiasm for this volume by Thabiti Anyabwile called The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors (Crossway).  It is a... continue

Paul Helm has posted an excellent little piece on what definitions do and don't do.A few quotes:"Berkhof’s definition is not an attempt to replace the language of the Psalms or of any other language, or to be cleverer than Scripture.... continue

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1600686.eceHistory is important; but the current distaste for history doesn't fill one with much confidence that this kind of thing can be reversed. ... continue

Having spent a jolly couple of days reading through pages and pages and pages of web-based Holocaust Denial while simultaneously gagging and preparing a chapter for a book on historical method, I confess to being totally depressed by the number... continue

As a loyal Philadelphian, I was more than a little pleased to see the design the U.S. Postal Service unveiled last week for its permanent stamp.  The cost of postage will continue to rise, I am sure, but this image... continue